Virginia Woolf Quotes, Garden Quotes, Islands Quotes

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Garden Quotes , Feet Quotes

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Winter Quotes , Garden Quotes

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

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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

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Garden Quotes , People Quotes

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

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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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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Work Quotes , Garden Quotes

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Garden Quotes , Two Quotes

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

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Tags : Alan Chadwick Quotes , Garden Quotes , Giving Quotes

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Garden Quotes , Religion 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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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Garden Quotes , Religion Quotes

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Garden Quotes

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

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