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"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."
Roberto Burle Marx
"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."
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"They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!"
Louise Jameson
"They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!"
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"I never promised you a rose garden."
Traian Basescu
"I never promised you a rose garden."
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"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."
David Baker
"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."
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"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
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"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
Oscar de la Renta
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
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"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
Gertrude Jekyll
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
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"To dwell is to garden."
Martin Heidegger
"To dwell is to garden."
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"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."
Robert Duncan
"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
Dixie Lee Ray
"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
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"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."
David Hockney
"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
W. H. Davies
"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album."
Dan Hawkins
"We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album."
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"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
Marcelene Cox
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
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"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
Bill Shankly
"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."
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"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."
Ken Thompson
"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."
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"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
Eric Morecambe
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
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"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening."
Tina Charles
"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening."
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"A good garden may have some weeds."
Thomas Fuller
"A good garden may have some weeds."
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"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
David Hobson
"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
Khalil Gibran
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
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"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
Robert Southey
"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
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"You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party."
Kenneth Starr
"You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party."
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"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."
Franz Schubert
"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."
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"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."
Edward Fitzgerald
"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."
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"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
Moon Unit Zappa
"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
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"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"
Scott Reed
"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"
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"All gardening is landscape painting."
William Kent
"All gardening is landscape painting."
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"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."
David Hobson
"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."
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"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."
Gary Miller
"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
Kim Wilde
"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
Ken Thompson
"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
J. M. Roberts
"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
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"Garden as though you will live forever."
William Kent
"Garden as though you will live forever."
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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
Alexander Smith
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
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"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
Alfred Austin
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
Ken Thompson
"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
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"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
Stephen Gardiner
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
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"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
George Ball
"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
Gilbert White
"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."
Rudyard Kipling
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."
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"They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green."
Conor Oberst
"They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green."
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"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."
Robert Fortune
"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."
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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
William Cowper
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
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"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
Lillie Langtry
"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
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"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"
Susannah York
"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"
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"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening."
Steven Cojocaru
"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening."
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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
Ian Hamilton Finlay
"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
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"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."
Robert Fortune
"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."
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