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“I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens I Believe Sin Tree Garden Originals Grateful Focused Adam Eden Adam And Eve Ingratitude Original Sin Garden Of Eden

Author:Max Lucado

“In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”

Ifs Needs Writing America Order United States Fire Red Garden England Characteristics Department Telephones Vivid Procedures Solicitors Fire Department English Love

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

Ifs Men Years May Use Might Asks My Own Answers Doubt Policy Fields Flower Late Garden Conviction Strokes Domain Inheritance Wheat Ballots Pastures

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden”

Ifs Shows Light Garden Eternity Kitchen

Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

“This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.”

Ifs Mean Persons Soul Father Jesus Winning Bits Religious Acting Grace Special Garden Shops Vocation Attorney Shepherds Carpenter Evangelists Homemaker Gethsemane Kingship Soul Winning

Author:R. C. Sproul

“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.”

Ifs Said Red Garden Dancing Rose Red Rose

Book:The Nightingale and the Rose

Source: The Nightingale and the Rose

“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”

Ifs Wife Husband Garden Chairs Eden Garden Of Eden

Author:I. L. Peretz

“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.”

“Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”

Ifs Knows Men Doe Book Body Seems House Fronts Fine Garden Fellows Screens Surround Guests Toys Hospitality Elusive Sly Conservatory

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and if I want to look, like, at tulip gardens, or, like, Georgian gardens, i love English gardens, how they're laid out. Japanese gardens, Asian gardens. So, I'm kind of a frustrated landscaper.”

Ifs Want Love Looks Kind Language Garden My Favorite Engines Frustrated Asian Favorites Things Search Engine Landscaping Georgians Japanese Gardens

Author:Michele Bachmann

“If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.”

Ifs Writing Looks Important Feelings Literature Lost Enjoy Century Garden Important Things Contact Bored Our Family Things In Life Family And Friends 19th Century

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.”

Ifs Should Ends Humor Funny Water Week Drink Garden Scientist Ass Bottles

Author:Lewis Black

“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”

Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia

“It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they'll choke your whole garden, man.”

Ifs Men World Whole Social Grows Responsibility Generations Essentials Garden Injustice Weed Capture Social Responsibility Choke

Author:Luis Valdez

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

Ifs World Want Humans Soul Spirituality Literature Music Clear Painting Garden Architecture Absence Paradise Thrive Gardening Great Garden

Author:Thomas Moore

“If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.”

Ifs Want Long Fall Forever Long Time Garden Falling In Love Drunk Gardening Short Time Want To Be Happy

Author:Arthur Smith

“Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.”

Ifs Design Garden Sake Patterns Disaster Tendencies Designer Frustration Owners

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.”

“I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.”

Ifs Knows Littles Might Night Flower Red Garden Rose Wander Dawn Thick Lilies Red Rose

Book:The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem

Source: The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem

“Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?”

Ifs Knows Running One Thing Beats Garden Rounds Ems Yards Snail

Author:Allen Klein

“If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.”

Ifs Men Life Firsts Ends Reason Hands Happens Lasts Answers Garden Versions Curious Destined Eden Garden Of Eden Firsts And Lasts

Book:Night Music: Nocturnes

Source: Night Music: Nocturnes

“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Ifs Heart Persons Made Sometimes Body Hands Light Would Be Eye Faces Passion Stars Water Air Sky Promise Garden Rose Evening If I Could Sincerity Making Love Palms Rose Garden Evening Sky

Author:Victor Hugo

“If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.”

Ifs Book Beautiful Conditions Fine Kings Clothes Garden Wine Dinner Coaches Servant Palaces Beautiful Clothes

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“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

“...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

“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

“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.”

“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

“When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Light Earth Water Hurt Fire Five Wife Sky Wind Drink Garden Stones Thirds My Wife Tea Sand Candle Third Time Iced Tea

Author:Red Skelton

“But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.”

Ifs Reality Desire Artist Fun Break Creation Cold Ambition Garden Fortunate Persist Rivals Slam Spray Lament Clerks Tweak Artists And Writers

Author:Rick Bayan

“If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.”

Ifs Way Hands Watches Garden Right Way Shovels

Author:Janet Macunovich

“Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.”

People Ifs Knows Should Trying Wells Long Care Past Order Left Enjoy Long Time Garden Harmony Take Care

Book:Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

Source: Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.”

“I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Energy Hair Garden If I Could Makeup Costumes Glitter Hair And Makeup

Author:Taylor Swift

“If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?”

Ifs Knows Firsts Looks Garden Adam Eden Adam And Eve First Lady Garden Of Eden

Author:Daniel Tosh

“And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.”

People Ifs Way May Soul Ends Feelings Dream Moving Effort Flower Bears Garden Eternity Embrace Fruit Deeds Conclusion Manage Strings Infirmity Splendour Embrace Life Great Garden

Book:Diaries of a Young Poet

Source: Diaries of a Young Poet

“All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep.”

Ifs Giving May Doe Two Eye Three Names Black Sleep Forget Cutting Flower Bed Garden Rose Shy Glances Flirting Noon Vases Forget Me Musk Forget Me Not Hyphens Flirtatious

Author:Willard R. Espy

“Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then and there can we really enjoy the beauty of the new leaves and flowers. Likewise, we must clear the murkiness of the past bad experiences from our minds. Life is remembrance in forgetfulness. Forgive what ought to be forgiven; forget what ought to be forgotten. Let us embrace life with renewed vigor. We should be able to face every moment of life with renewed expectation, like a freshly blossomed flower.”

“Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Walks Flower Garden Museums Coming Back

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.”

Ifs Firsts Helping Wanted Earth Happiness Study Garden Soil Allies

Author:Marion Dudley Cran

“There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”

Ifs Work Behinds Garden Occupation Gardening Gardener Creeps Great Garden

Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos

Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos

“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.”

Ifs Wells Death Dies Heaven Dying Grew Garden Fairy Shields Gardener Careless Bud Supplies Impermanence Maids Praying To God Spray Drought Caterpillars

Author:William Browne

“If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Two Together Audience Pieces Thousand Garden Tonight Forty Squares Twelve Orchestra Ensemble Madison Duets Madison Square Garden

Author:John Densmore

“I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.”

Ifs Art Use Artist Grows Can Do Inspiring Pieces Tree Garden Plant Soil Gardening Canvas Graffiti Embellishment

Author:Ron Finley

“When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.”

Ifs Feelings Kids Games Building Garden Code Hockey Leafs Stadiums Forums Montreal Great Feelings Maple

Author:Frank Gehry

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