George W. Bush Quotes, Garden Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Garden Quotes , Hair Quotes

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Wall Quotes , Garden Quotes

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

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Garden Quotes , Weather Quotes

Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.

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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Spring Quotes , Garden Quotes

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Garden Quotes

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Garden Quotes

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Flower Quotes , Garden Quotes

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Garden Quotes

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Garden Quotes , Insulting Quotes

To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Garden Quotes , Play Quotes

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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