Quotes with gardens

  • People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

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  • Alma Guillermoprieto And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Douglas Jerrold Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Alexander Smith How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • John Maynard Keynes Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • William Shakespeare Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Betjeman People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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