Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

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.

Demi Lovato

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.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

Tom Turner

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

Tom Turner

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

C. S. Lewis

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Bob Dylan

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Charles Bukowski

You have my soul and I have your money

Elbert Hubbard

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Aristotle

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Aristotle

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

Patricia Schroeder

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Eminem

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

Eminem

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

C. S. Lewis

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

Tony Blair

for obvious reasons, the mood now is different.

Al Groh

I don't know that my mood is a Rolling Stones mood right now, ... It would be kind of a shame to miss, though.

Zane Grey

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Samaire Armstrong

I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.