Best garden & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.”

Mother Enemy Forever Childhood Garden Moses

“My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.”

Believe Seems Mother Father House I Believe Memories Groups Arms Walking Garden Orchard Memory Of My Father

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.”

“My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.”

Children Mother Effort Garden Rivers Originals Excited Landscape My Children Restoration Gems Capes

Author:Louis Bacon

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.”

Heart Children Two Mother Son Flower My Heart Daughter Garden My Daughter Thank You Mother And Son Mother Son

Author:Ana Monnar

“It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.”

“This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.”

“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.”

Ifs Mother House Space Secret Tree Crazy Grew Grew Up Garden Property Sculpture Greenhouses Secret Garden

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.”

I Can Feelings Care Kids Mother Church Animal Gone Growing Taught Praying Bird Garden Sacred Woods Take Care Forests Vegetables Me Alone Lots Of Friends Alone Time Growing Food

Author:David LaChapelle

“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. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."”

Kind Running Mother Boys Team Brother Like You Female Garden Who You Are My Brother Cousin Emancipation

Author:Felicity Jones

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

Mother Found My Own Discovery Garden Parenting Self Discovery Gardening Gardening And God Pulling Weeds

Author:Alice Walker

“She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.”

Life Mean Said Beautiful Remember Mother Sun Fate Cry Six Garden Seven Warm Flying Remembered Tragic Butterfly Yards Beautiful Life Daisies

Author:Lisa Genova

“My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.”

People Men Made Mother Gone Taught Men And Women Garden Dust Abra

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.”

Said Mother Hate Wish Five Wife Tree Garden I Hate My Wife Awful Wish You Peas Thurber

Author:James Thurber

“All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”

Knows Way Years Heart Children Two Ends Hands Mother Grows Growing Up Subjects Flower One Day Garden Ran Two Years Cried Delightful Darling Two Year Olds Wendy

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.”

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Author:John Irving

“Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms”

Firsts Children Mother Fall Air Blood Rocks First Time Garden Refuse Milk Rainbow Mist Scorpions Dragonflies

Book:I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

“Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.”

Different Life Is Mother Secret Fit Paper Garden Cups Lilies

Book:Wither

Source: Wither

“Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.”

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”

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Book:Creating a Garden for the Senses

Source: Creating a Garden for the Senses

“I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.”

Needs Home Mother Daughter Garden Holes My Daughter Hanging Out Very Happy

Author:Uma Thurman

“No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.”

Trying Use Bigs Moving Mother House Goal Daughter Garden My Family My Daughter Big Houses

Author:Ewan McGregor

“Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.”

Children Two Mother Energy Sweet Involved Mass Garden My Time Conservation Being A Mother Renewable Energy Recycling Peas Solar Energy Sweet Peas

Author:Blythe Danner

“After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.”

Feels Made Hard Beautiful Mother Black Sacrifice Bed Spring Garden Tools Phones Jew Wander Grass Pot Weed Gardening Hung Pulling Strokes Couches Colorful Buckets Tropical Chopping Petunias

Author:Stephen M. Irwin

“My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.”

Mother Father Dog New York Brother Garden New York Times

Author:Donna Leon

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