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.

Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Robert Frost

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

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.

Russell Page

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

Rumi

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

Rumi

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Theodor Reik

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Frank Robinson

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Thomas a Kempis

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Joshua Homme

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.