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In the garden of life, doubt is the weed that stifles the growth of curiosity and imagination.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'
Author:
Susannah York
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.
Author:
Kim Wilde
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Author:
Alice Walker
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Author:
Voltaire
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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Alfred Vigny
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Author:
Lope Vega
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
Author:
Allen Toussaint
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Author:
Peter Tosh
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Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
Author:
Rip Torn
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
Author:
Uma Thurman
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
Author:
Ken Thompson
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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
Author:
Ken Thompson
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
Author:
E. Thompson
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It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.
Author:
Roger Taylor
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
Author:
Taylor Swift
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Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.
Author:
Catharine Stimpson
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.
Author:
John Starks
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A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Author:
Robert Southey
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I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
Author:
Soundarya
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
Author:
Charlotte Smith
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
Author:
Robert Shea
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Author:
George Shaw
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
Author:
Bill Shankly
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Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Author:
Franz Schubert
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Author:
May Sarton
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
Author:
Carlos Santana
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I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Author:
Roy Rogers
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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Author:
Scott Reed
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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
Author:
Dixie Ray
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My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
Author:
J. Priestley
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Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
Author:
Iggy Pop
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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Author:
Michael Pollan
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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
Author:
Conor Oberst
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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Author:
Samuel Morison
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My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
Author:
Eric Morecambe
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Author:
George Moore
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I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.
Author:
Roberto Marx
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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Author:
Roberto Marx
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Author:
Francis Lowell
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One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
Author:
Francis Lowell
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
Author:
David Lawrence
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We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
Author:
Guy Laliberte
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Author:
Paul Klee
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Garden as though you will live forever.
Author:
William Kent
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A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
Author:
William Kent
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Author:
Helen Keller
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Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.
Author:
Charles Keating
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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Author:
Gertrude Jekyll
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Author:
Gertrude Jekyll
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
Author:
Louise Jameson
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
Author:
David Hockney
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I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.
Author:
David Hobson
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I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.
Author:
David Hobson
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To dwell is to garden.
Author:
Martin Heidegger
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We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
Author:
Dan Hawkins
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If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Author:
Claudia Grandi
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Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
Author:
Maurice Gibb
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I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
Author:
Boy George
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.
Author:
Rose Fyleman
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A good garden may have some weeds.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Author:
Samuel Foote
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Author:
Edward Fitzgerald
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My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
Author:
Howard Finster
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
Author:
Ian Finlay
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Author:
Ian Finlay
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Author:
Ian Finlay
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Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Author:
Jerry Falwell
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Author:
Fran Drescher
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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
Author:
James Douglas
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For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
Author:
Nigel Dennis
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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Author:
Jeffery Deaver
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
Author:
W. Davies
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Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
Author:
Blythe Danner
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Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Author:
Marcelene Cox
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
Author:
William Cowper
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Author:
Abraham Cowley
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
Author:
Jim Carrey
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
Author:
Margaret Carlson
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Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.
Author:
Juan Carlos
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Author:
Orson Card
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
Author:
Karel Capek
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Author:
Leo Buscaglia
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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Author:
Frances Burnett
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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Author:
Sylvia Browne
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
Author:
J. Brown
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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Author:
Eric Brown
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Author:
Robert Bridges
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Author:
Beau Bridges
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I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
Author:
Jacqueline Bisset
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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I never promised you a rose garden.
Author:
Traian Basescu
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Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
Author:
George Ball
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
Author:
George Balanchine
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That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.
Author:
David Baker
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Author:
Liberty Bailey
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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
Author:
Liberty Bailey
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Author:
Alfred Austin
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Author:
Alfred Austin
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Author:
Alfred Austin
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Author:
Mary Astell
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These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.
Author:
Darren Aronofsky
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
Author:
Eden Ahbez
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Author:
Douglas Adams
