Quotes of Garden - somelinesforyou

“ The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. ”

- Dorothy Frances Gurney

“ I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ 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. ”

- Marcelene Cox

“ A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting. ”

- Gladys Taber

“ A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. ”

- George Herbert

“ A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth. ”

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

“ In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ”

- Abram L. Urban

“ The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote. ”

- Sir Muhammad Iqbal

“ If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it. ”

- Hammurabi

“ Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. ”

- Richard Diran

“ There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“ Working in the garden…gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. ”

- Ruth Stout

“ What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ A good garden may have some weeds. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. ”

- Clare Ansberry

“ A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. ”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

“ Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary. ”

- Max Lucado

“ If there is no gardener there is no garden. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat. ”

- S. S. Biddle
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