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“If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.”

Ifs Giving Doe Dies Fields Garden Owners Thieves Pigs Meadows

Author:Orson Scott Card

“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.”

House Our Lives Garden Window Ancient Hunger Pet Scent Boston Lawns Ferns

Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

“It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.”

Easier Ten Garden Airplane Bathroom Versailles

Author:Sally Mann

“...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Sometimes Use Running Land Waste Mouths Garden Endless Parish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Believe Facts Grows Causes Emotion Worry Flower Anxiety Garden Encouragement Plant Determined Unhappy Weed Constructive Default

Author:Brian Tracy

“If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.”

Ifs Wells Garden Dedicated Efficient Gardener

Author:Mr. Lee

“A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.”

Looks Soul Done Prayer Pleasure Lord Practice Garden Roots Plant Setting Settings Soil Weed Majesty Beginners

Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

“Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.”

Simple Flower Garden Weed

Book:Whistling In the Dark

Source: Whistling In the Dark

“I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.”

Firsts Littles Two Courses Found Sides Generations Fashion Garden Grey Icons My Generation Kate Moss

Author:Lou Doillon

“A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!”

Men Bigs Universe Garden Royal Slugs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!”

Beautiful Ordinary Garden Extraordinary

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid...Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours...Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else.”

Looks Kind Made Hours Cities Ready Hair Battle Bed Ten Losing Garden Endure Lovely Made It Paris Hotel Sunlight Roof Inclination Eleven Berlin Enchanting Madrid Penthouses

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.”

Years Littles Church Five Members Garden Raised Piano Five Years Concerts Five Year Olds Church Members

Author:Al Jarreau

“It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.”

Comfort Garden Pasta Garlic Cupboards Parsley

Author:Alice Waters

“The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign.”

Want Stories Week Garden Seven Campaigns Related Suspended Pasta Olives Christie Olive Garden

Author:Conan O'Brien

“If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.”

Ifs Peace Risk Security Garden Crosses Prepared Harm Conclusion Borders Related Threatened Turkeys Border Security

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!”

Ifs Whole Earth House Garden

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.”

Left Singing Garden Silent Brown Chickens Twilight Blonde Nightingales

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.”

Literature Flower Highest Garden Quotations Charismatic

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.”

“The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.”

Men Might Fighting Grows Accepting He Man Garden Rose Doctrine Weed Laissez Faire

Author:John Ruskin

“Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.”

World Two Dream Lying Perfect Sea Garden Towns Lovely Valleys Orange Exquisite Lemons Grove

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.”

Want Garden Plot Weed Reserves Tidy

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.”

May Home Action Influence Land Garden Wide Our Words Words And Actions

Author:Elizabeth Price Foley

“In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.”

Garden Avant Garde

Author:Hakim Bey

“Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.”

Mind Flower Negative Garden Substitutes Weed Positive Thoughts Negative Thoughts

Author:Brian Tracy

“Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.”

Language Garden Tools Soil Clumsy

Author:Joy Kogawa

“One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.”

Knows Garden Chickens Scratches

Author:Josh Billings

“Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.”

Want Whole Advantage Concern Garden Plant Faults Boss Yankees Englishmen Eden Garden Of Eden Irishmen

Author:Josh Billings

“The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.”

Way Helping Care Form Levels Modern Style Garden Increase Raises Tables Don't Care Clever Tea I Don't Care Discussion Prose Professors

Book:Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.”

Should Enjoy Flower Wall Fine Garden Distance Treated Owners Iron Virtuous Fragrance Guarded Relics Flower Garden Virtuous Woman

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.”

Dark Garden Ignored Bulbs

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Gardens are our link with the divine.”

Divine Garden Links

Author:William Howard Adams

“Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!”

Wells Kind Has Beens Loses Religious Mankind Wall Areas Garden Engineering Crap Scope Genetic Engineering

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!”

Made Beautiful Effort Garden Made It

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!”

Real Wealth Flower Garden Salary Gardener Marvellous Real Wealth

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!”

Kind Book Different Beautiful Flower Garden Library All Kinds Weed Herbs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!”

Heaven Numbers Garden Increase

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.”

Nice Flower Garden Sunshine Pigs Crow Nightingales

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!”

Needs Feels Beautiful Garden Feel Good Temples

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.”

Years Feelings Today Lasts Given Garden Window Miracle Incredibles Hospitals Last Year Fabulous

Author:Mary Travers

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

Would Be Nature Beauty Mountain Garden Ugly

Author:Victor Hugo

“The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.”

Author:Nikki Yanofsky

“I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden.”

Grows Mines Flower Garden Arrangements

Author:Tasha Tudor

“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”

World Wish Garden Cat Sunny Sofas

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius

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

Ifs Fire Garden Rose Fuel Rose Garden Thistles

Author:Rumi

“Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.”

Has Beens Late Garden Trade Eden Garden Of Eden Trade Offs

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.”

Remember Memories Perfect Garden Seasons Forgotten Frustration Looking Back Triumphant

Author:Patience Strong