“I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.” MemoriesGrewGrew UpGardenBest Memories Author:Emmanuelle Seigner
“When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.” BigsKidsStuffGrewGardenYardsAcres Author:Randy Houser
“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.” ShouldYearsFirstsChildrenSoulLightCareDesireHeavenDarkSinBreakSunTreeYouthGrewApproachFairsGardenVicesSeedsSuitsTheeYour SoulMy ChildrenSoilRejectsUnfoldingIndolenceInsidiousSnaresFirmnessGroveAcorns Author:Lydia Sigourney
“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.” DarkAttentionFlowerGrewNeededOne DayGardenDecidedFilledConstantThings To DoDark ThoughtsBetter Things To Do Author:Brian Andreas
“On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.” LifeParticularGrewShapesGardenRootsExpertsStemLeafsGardenerSpecialistsCaterpillars Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.” TwoKidsBeautifulUsedHateHouseGrewGrew UpGardenGrandmotherWeedGardeningMy GrandmotherLawnsLoatheGarden LoveMowingMowing The Lawn Author:Elton John
“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.” IfsWellsDeathDiesHeavenDyingGrewGardenFairyShieldsGardenerCarelessBudSuppliesImpermanenceMaidsPraying To GodSprayDroughtCaterpillars Author:William Browne
“I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.” ThinkingWorldGrewGrew UpGardenArtistic Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.” IfsMotherHouseSpaceSecretTreeCrazyGrewGrew UpGardenPropertySculptureGreenhousesSecret Garden Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.” PlayRunningUsedBoysTeamBrotherGrewGrew UpGardenLocalsMy BrotherCricketCousin Author:Felicity Jones
“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.” BornGrewGrew UpGardenParisSuburbsBarbecue Author:Vanessa Paradis
“THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.” EndsNightGrowsWaterMorningTreeTearsMinesGrewMy FriendsGardenAngryShiningGladPoisonApplesBoresVeilsWrathFoeDay And NightDeceitfulMy Smile Author:William Blake
“Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain.” SaidNightGirlLinesCarCryGrewSceneRainGardenPoliceFinalsVisibleHeadlightsDrizzle Author:George Pelecanos
“The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University” WorldFormUniverseKnownTreeBloodGrewDiseaseDevilGardenUniversityAmorSeedsApplesBoresMagnificentWorld HistoryHarvardEdenGenesisDeliriumGarden Of EdenPhdsApple TreesHarvard University Author:Lauren Oliver
“Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.” Would BeCareChanceCompassionTreeGrewQuietGardenPlantHeavyGenerosityGrassSunshineHeartedOpen Heart Book:Being There Source: Being There
“I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.” KindHelpingHomeEarthGrowsLove IsGrowingGrewGrew UpGardenAll KindsKitchenFarmsVegetablesWormsGardenerScrapCompostVegetable GardenGrowing ThingsGreat Garden Author:Curtis Stone