Another Quote

The other quote thread was long. Came from here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/792939/

Here's a great one I read today! The book is The Gardener's Bed-Book by Richardson Wright (orig. 1929). It's like a gardener's devotional, with a short reading for every day of the year.

January 25. "Death Comes To The Gardener"
"I like the pagan custom of burying a man with the symbol of his profession in his hand - the sceptre for the king, the sword for the soldier, the chalice for the priest. Then why not the trowel for the gardener? It would be pleasant to think that on Judgment Day you could tell the gardeners apart from all the others by the trowels they carry! . . . And lest this will appear incongruous, perhaps they will dress me in my gardening clothes - the corduroys and the grayed undershirt. At least my neighbors will recognize me!"

This message was edited Feb 17, 2008 1:11 PM

Sue - You got buried down the list here.

Lot of memories in this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years..._100_Movie_Quotes
Favorites of mine 12,35,36,47,64,72. A few I don't know.

Thanks for "promoting" me, Al! I like your method of shorthand, or should I say short-quote!

You can wish in one hand and poop in the other and see which gets filled first. ~Burgess Meredith from grumpy old men or grumpier old men. I can never remember which one (guess I'll have to watch them again)

Okay, we're resurrected!

I just read this on the Cottage Gardening Forum:
"Veggies are for your body, but flowers are for your soul."
How true!

Primrose! I love that ... I have been looking for some SHORT quotes to put on the risers of my porch stairs. That one is STILL to long, unless I use two risers....

How about 'Watch your step!'

Victor, Victor, Victor.... WHATEVER am I going to do with you??? Where my kids grew up it was more likely "Dodge the landmines" (They played in my horse pasture!)

You would get along great with my husband, he LOVES to take the meaning of words literally and loves word puns. ~ Copycat Pat

Better one - 'Wash my steps!'

My 91 year old neighbor was over this morning to help me with the moldings in my office. He came up with this one - "Spackle is like a woman's drawers - it hides a lot of sins."

Hee hee!

hmmmm...so true

There is a catalog that sells extra long t-shirts that come in a can marked 'Plumber's Crack Spackle.'

I've always wanted to stencil something on my stairs, but haven't come up with anything yet. But I do have wallpaper border on both sides of the stairs, at the bottom of the wall, that says repeatedly "There's no place like home"!

Years ago I saw in a magazine about an old house where the owner had made drawers with knobs in his stairs. How practical! I love that idea.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988

One of my favorites:

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"

Can anyone relate??????????

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. ~Lewis Gannit

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. ~Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981

heehee - i love the "meadow lacking grass" quote! And i totally realte to the "irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed".
Thanks for the morning smile!

Make no mistake, the weeds will win: nature bats last.
Henry Mitchell

"nature bats last." I love it!!! LOL... so many GREAT quotes, thanks friends!

Good ones, Celeste and Pirl. Love the final batter analogy. I would add that even when the gardener is at bat, nature throws curve balls, or worse, knuckle balls.

Slug balls would be the worst for me.

that sounds like another not-a-curse:
"Oh, slug balls!"
to go with:
"My contorted filberts..."

Contorted Filberts should be the title of a book. I love it! "Oh, slug balls" could be a chapter.

hahahhaha.
It's good to have censor-proof exclamations...

As Amy must know, grubs are great at rolling themselves into balls.

careful Victor - don't make me come over there and contort your filberts!

Mitchel is great! I guess if you want a garden reference book, you won't like his. But if you want to get into the head of a dry, witty incredible gardener, he is fun!

This one, also by Mitchell, embodies the concept of DG so perfectly:

It is a great joy the day we discover that we can learn things without having to make the mistake ourselves.

We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams

It's never late until midnight, then it's early.

My grandfather.

"You'd kick if you were in swimmin!!!"

My Mother --- and I STILL don't understand what she meant!!!

My grandfather would also say that someone deserved 'six months electric chair!'

DFIL use to say this about some of the country bumpkins out here.
" If brains were dynamite, they wouldn't have enough to blow away a dust speck!"