David Hobson quotes

“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.”
-- David Hobson

#Eye Quotes #Garden Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.”
-- David Hobson

#Life Quotes #Two Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.”
-- David Hobson

#Weed Quotes #Flower Quotes #Grows Quotes

“To boldly grow where no one has groan before.”
-- David Hobson

#Grows Quotes

“When I’m home I’m very much hands on and like to be involved in the children’s sport and music.”
-- David Hobson

#Sports Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“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

#Winter Quotes #Garden Quotes #Order Quotes

“If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.”
-- David Hobson

#Garden Quotes #Surprise Quotes #Surprise Me Quotes

“I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.”
-- David Hobson

#Garden Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com

“If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”

“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”

“Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.”

“Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”