Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Where I've come from and my background, to fight at Madison Square Garden against the biggest name in boxing is unbelievable.

Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. “Let’s walk in the garden,” she said softly. “We can’t.” “We must.” “We can’t.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I do sometimes joke that I'm Tarzan and Ben's Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there's dead things in the garden.

When the moon comes up, I go down For the first time There's a garden deep, deep in my heart But it's blossomed for the last time

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

Like everybody know, six years, nobody beat Mr. Bob Backlund. I beat him in most famous arena in the world, Madison Square Garden.

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

I fought Miguel Cotto in Madison Square Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade - it was like fighting the devil in Hell.

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

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