Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Russell Page

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Rumi

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Fish

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Fran Drescher

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

George Washington

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.

George Meredith

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

Stephanie McDonald

As far as day-to-day life, he's a very happy baby. He's not miserable. He loves music. Knowing that he's not in any pain and that he can express his feelings is wonderful. It relieves us a lot. All we want is for him to enjoy his life.

Adrian Gonzalez

As long as the kids can get to enjoy this, they can take it back to their school and tell their friends about it, and get their friends to do well so they can come back here next year.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Stan Gaines

You hear all types of things and you try to not listen to it. I was shocked when he told us this morning. I enjoyed playing for him. I don't know what standard he's being judged by, but I can say nothing but good things about him.

Bill Cowher

Next year is the only future I've looked at. It's going to be starting over and trying to re-establish a group of guys that is going to be different than it was this year. But I can tell you that next week I'm going to be doing a lot of reflecting, and enjoying every moment of it.

Author unknown

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?

Brian Morris

I enjoyed playing quarterback. But the way I look at it now, with us running the Power-I, I'm in a very important position in the offense. We have a great tailback with E.J. Burgess. Hopefully I can help the team any way I can.

Alexis Arquette

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

Beau Bridges

I find people respectful, and for me, the fun of doing what I do, is communicating with people, so I enjoy meeting people who have seen me perform.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Andy Roddick

First round of the U.S. Open, the last time that happened I was 17. It's not something I expected. You know, I just felt like I was going to have a pretty good run here.

Gloria Naylor

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Grace Paley

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Rod Smith

Before I got on the phone with him, I felt terrible because I'd let him down.

Ken Roberts

Everything from this tournament was positive for our team. ... I felt that we played with the intensity level that we have to play at in our league schedule and the rest of the year. But we have to do it the whole game.