I have a favorite quote that is taped above my computer - can you see it to the right of the ivy?
"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I have the above and the following in my garden shed -
"A little house, a house of my own, out of the wind's and the rain's way." - Padrak Colum
What's yours?
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
- Admiral Farragut, Battle of Mobile Bay
"May the fickle finger of fate forever favour you"
three - have you been watching Laugh-In reruns?
WaterCan - I thought that quote was by VictorGardener?
Hee hee - on DG, I'd have to change it to 'Darn'!
I have many favorites - for different contexts. Many are from Groucho Marx. One is, 'Those are my principles and if you don't like them, well, I have others'.
"Sometimes
you just have to take the leap
and build your wings
on the way
down."
- Kobi Yamada
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"
"we are stardust (billion year old carbon)
we are golden (caught in the devil's bargain)
and we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden."
- Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock"
those are the ones that come first to my mind...
amethystsm, you're pretty deep! but, ah, the nostalgia of the Woodstock song!
excellent quotes, guys!
I'm a simple person. I want to get one of those signs to put over my bed. Not a quote, but I really like it. 'Alway kiss me goodnight'. We always kiss goodnight, even after 39 years of marriage. I think I would have trouble sleeping without my kiss.
Smart, Jan!
I like the sentiment in Sue's and Amy's quotes!
I often think of my Dad saying, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right!" Of course, "right" is very subjective!......especially in my garden! LOL
c'mon - surely more people have quotes to contribute!
i'm eager to read them...
amy
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"Don't waste your time trying to be a big winner
If you get too fat someone else gets thinner
You know I used to be troubled but I finally saw the light
Now I don't worry about a thing cause I know nothing's gonna be alright"
---Mose Allison
Amy, there are so many good Leonard Cohen quotes. I could go on all night. How about...
So come, my friends, be not afraid.
We are so lightly here.
It is in love that we are made;
In love we disappear.
Tho’ all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There’s no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
I love those 'deep' quotes. They help keep so many things in great perspective.
My favorite one (right now) is:
"When sleeping women wake, mountains move"
That's one of Dolly Parton's favorites.
Victor!
And here I was thinking that the quote was so innocent!!
*sigh*
Do or do not; there is no try.
-- Yoda
Welcome VV!
Twain: 'Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.'
I bought this book, and it's full of garden/gardenesque proverbs. I'll share a few, or the whole book, it is small...lol:
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."--John Keats.
"If you would be happy all your life--plant a garden."--Chineese proverb.
"Gardens are not made by sittin in the shade."--Rudyard Kipling
"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies."--Gertrude Jekyll
.Those are great, Thom. Which one strikes you as being more 'you'?
nothing to it, but to do it
More than likely, Gertrued Jekyll. I finally have a myspace homepage, thanks in a large part, actually all part, to Paul. I wrote that out of anyone that is deceased, if I could go back in time, I would love to work in one of her gardens along side, just to be able to glean from her...I think she shaped a lot of what we as gardeners are doing today, or are relearning; she is wise beyond her years. I have said it before, which is sort of a take on the Jekyll quote, "If you plant a garden, you believe in the future."
Gee, Thom, I wonder if it's the same book I have. Mine is a Hallmark one called "Garden Lovers Quotations", 2001, about 4" x 6".
Here's one from it:
"I don't know how people deal with their moods when they have no garden . . . to work in." . . . (there's more to it, but long) by Rachel Peden
The book is: Garden Proverbs it is illustrated by Diane Bigda. I bought it at a chain called, The Christmas Tree Shop. It was $1.99. lol. It's about 8.5x8.5...give or take.
If I head up there, I'm usually up there every week...lol...and they have extra, I can always pick a few extra up. I'll have to check on their quantities.
We have Christmas Tree Shops up here, too. Someone once told me that the original store is on, or near, Cape Cod.
I've always wanted to visit a Christmas Tree Shop, but they are just too far away for me to travel that far, just to shop.
Well, Candyce, you'll just have to come down and visit me for a day (seriously!). There are a few CTS's in my area. I think Monadnock is only about an hour away from me.
Candyce - there's a CTS at the Holyoke Mall (Ingleside). That's not terribly far from you - about an hour at most. You can couple it with a stop and Yankee Candle and the Butterfly Conservatory in Deerfield. I know it is a trip, especially with the kiddie's, but it is worth the fun!
"Things change.", Audrey Wilson
"*Stuff* happens" - Forrest Gump.
Victor, get your mind out of the toilet!
"The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest."
- Albert Einstien
Speaking of Einstein - "If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"
Mrs. Gertrude Ellis Skinner on seed catalogues (1916):
If we ordered all the seeds we mark in the catalogue in January, we would require a township for a garden, a Rockefeller to finance it and an army to hoe it. We did not understand the purpose of a catalogue for a long time. A catalogue is a stimulus. It's like an oyster cocktail before a dinner, a Scotch high-ball before the banquet and the singing before the sermon.
The satisfaction of a garden does not depend on the area, nor, happily, on the cost or rarity of the plants. It depends on the temper of the person. One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate the happy peace of mind that is satisfied with little.
"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."
- Richard Diran
YESSS! Watercan, I think you found my new favorite quote!
"I got a rock!" from Peanuts is a favorite;
The Forrest Gump quote "Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks" resonates with me as well.
I am laughing with tears!!
I love rocks. Every garden I have has at least a couple in it. I hope they don't die.
Louise, I hope you remembered to mulch them for the winter!
David, I love that quote - it seems like all the good ones are from the turn of the century!
WaterCan - are you sure that wasn't Rodney Dangerfield?!
