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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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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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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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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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

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

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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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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

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

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A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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

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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wisdom 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

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

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

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