Garden Quotes

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin

Tell, Show, Shall

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.
Eric Morecambe

Long, Him, Asked

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.
Roberto Burle Marx

Artist, Color, Intentions

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!
Taylor Swift

Love, Music, Writing

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.
Gertrude Stein

Nothing, After, Beginning

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
Christopher Hitchens

Religion, Crazy, Said

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.
Alfred Austin

Nature, Gardening, Heart

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?
Terry Pratchett

Bad, Die, Before

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Heart, Pass, Beat

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush

Able, While, Bend

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson

Alone, Live, Books

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury

Life, Family, Happy

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Peter Tosh

Music, Travel, Seen

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.
Mark Ruffalo

Marriage, Respect, Care

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
Julie Andrews

Love, Family, Play

To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger

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.
David Hockney

Made, Show, Point

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.
Demi Lovato

Able, Point, Stand

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!
Susan Orlean

Spring, Might, Quite

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
Julia Roberts

Love, Time, Great

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
James Wolcott

Age, Future, Yourself

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Joseph Conrad

Flower, Personal, Criticism

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.
Carlos Santana

Spiritual, Two, Flower

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.
Jacqueline Bisset

Love, Time, Spend

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

Nothing, Thinking, Weather

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Best, Made, Pizza

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Loretta Lynn

Country, Big, Kids

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope de Vega

Live, Envy, Few

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