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“I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.”

Way Sometimes Facts Father Felt Growth My Own Garden Insignificant Landmarks

Author:Ian Mcewan

“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.”

Sometimes Whole Opportunity House Rooms Views Design Building Garden Architecture Dramatic Epic Maintaining Exhibits Subordination

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.”

“It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.”

World Sometimes Seems Science Hell Garden Very Good Imitation Eden Amen Garden Of Eden

Author:Maude Royden

“It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.”

“People sometimes say to me: "Craig, get out of my garden."”

People Sometimes Humor Funny Garden

Author:Craig Ferguson

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“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

“...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)

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

Sometimes Past Water Tears Garden Our Future

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines.”

Feels Writing Sometimes Night Next Difficult Chance Plans Week Terrible Garden Sick Grateful Get Up Shed Next Day Migraine

Author:Damian Barr

“Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.”

Thinking Writing Real Sometimes Exercise Garden Fingers Helpful Blogging Violinist

Author:Kate Christensen

“I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.”

Giving Book Sometimes Steps Mom Dad Garden Sick My Dad Blow Eight Japan Packs Sheets Brooklyn Demos Origami Epcot

Author:Adam Richman

“What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be, but we tend not to look at what I call these parallel interests, and they develop along the way. And sometimes one can say, well, you know, why should I grow my own garden and spend all that time when I can buy carrots cheaper at the supermarket and just put aside that kind of an interest.”

Knows Way Should Wells Looks Kind I Can Sometimes Happens Grows Interest My Own Our Lives Garden Busy Our Family Should I Vocation Parallels Cheaper Supermarkets Carrots

Author:Darold Treffert

“Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.”

Years Important Sometimes Community Millions Conditions Bird Garden Climate Species Locals Rely Soil Native Insects Indigenous Wildlife

Author:David Suzuki

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Feels Sometimes Ordinary Rain Garden Standing Silent Warm Invisible Sunday Peacefulness

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.”

“Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Sometimes House White Race Car Flower Garden Green Rose Grass Brown Drivers Cows Jet Blur Boulevard Rose Garden

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

Kind Said Two Sometimes Used Spirit Names Garden Labor Gardening Spades

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.”

Ifs Stills Book Soul Sometimes Dream Hands Might Dark Sin Wind Pages Mouths Garden Longing Tired Wings Spread Melody Broads Intervals Sculptors Seamless

Book:The Book of Images

Source: The Book of Images

“I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.”

Want Sometimes Hands Beautiful Form Fun Tears Shapes Comfortable Draws Garden Burden Humble Ugly Admiration Awkward Shells Familiarity Tenacity Resent Gloves Adaptability Oysters Slate

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”

Ifs Sometimes Enough Wonder Pieces Written Minutes Identity Return Bird Garden Definitions Fortunate Dictionary

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.”

Knows Stills Country Sometimes House Streets Bird Garden Window Mirrors Longing Yesterday Evening Beloved Shops Dizzy Your Presence Pensive Country Houses

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.”

Children Sometimes Whole Names Hours Simple Flower Comfort Cost Ten Garden Delight Grass Ran Dragons Butterfly More Money Bores Smallest Examining Whole Family Bouquets Courtesans

Author:Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.”

Mind Sometimes Play Garden

Book:Novels, 1942-1952

Source: Novels, 1942-1952

“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Sometimes Lasts Economy Wonderful Duty Rain Garden Rivers Foundation Firsts And Lasts

Author:Wendell Berry

“somtimes people say that you can not live your dreams. sometimes people say that you can not sell out madison square garden. well this is what i tell them-NEVER SAY NEVER”

People Wells Sometimes Dream Garden Sells Your Dreams Squares Can Not Madison Live Your Dreams Never Say Never Madison Square Garden

Author:Justin Bieber

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”

Sometimes Light Language Poet Garden Dawn Midnight Verbs

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.”

Source: Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel

“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.”

Source: Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.”

Source: The Issue at Hand

“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”

“Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.”

Source: What we carry: poems

“I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.”

Sometimes Garden Shoes Boots Platforms Knickers Platform Shoes

Author:Kim Wilde

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