Garden Quotes - Page 33

• We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

  Maureen Johnson

  Men, Serial Killer, Gone

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• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Rain, Rivers

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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• I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Flower, Play

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Cory Doctorow

  Perfection, Generations, Definitions

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Heart, Wine

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• in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Stars, Son

  William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

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• From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

  Ann Voskamp

  Stories

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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• I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.

  Shane Jones

  War, Sadness, Writing

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.

  Judith McNaught

  Beautiful, Feelings, Littles

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Almost Heaven”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.

  Judith McNaught

  Heaven, Ordinary, Stood Up

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Almost Heaven”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec's. A girl with long brown curls and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Horse, Flower

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Light, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Mom, Fun

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• And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

  Haruki Murakami

  Summer, Zoos, Japan

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• Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

  John Steinbeck

  Play, Mind, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Territory, Way

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

  R. C. Sproul

  Depression, Feelings, Guilt

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.34, Image

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• Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dog, Flower, Culture

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.171, Dell

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• Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Eye, Grieving, Rose

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.365, A&C Black

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• The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

  Edgar Guest

  Flower, Men, Goal

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• The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Air, Swings

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

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• Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Likes, World, Good Things

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911). “The Secret Garden”, Copp Clark Company

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• People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

  Nancy Farmer

  Weed, Sunshine, People

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• Sitting in an English
  Garden waiting for the sun
  If the sun don't come
  You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

  John Lennon

  Rain, Waiting, Sitting

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