Quotes about Garden
Here we slept, she says. And he adds, Kisses without number. Waking in the morning - Silver between the trees - Upstairs - In the garden - When summer came - In winter snowtime - The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.
- Virginia Woolf
The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.
- Charles Dickens
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
- Oscar Wilde
Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.
- Cormac McCarthy
Supposedly if you could think of nothing good to say about a dullard you would say that he was a good Christian. Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.
- Cormac McCarthy
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)
- Wendell Berry
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
- Vincent Van Gogh
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
- Oscar Wilde
They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.
- Oscar Wilde
There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.
- Oscar Wilde
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. In
- Oscar Wilde
After celebrating Passover, Jesus and His disciples walked to the Mount of Olives, to the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36). The fact that Jesus spent the final hours before His arrest in a garden is significant. First, the fall of man occurred in a garden—so Jesus, who is the second Adam, also entered into a garden as He prepared to give His life to atone for the sin of the first man and woman.
- Kathie Lee Gifford