Garden of The Gods

Famous quotes containing the words garden of, garden and/or gods:

    “It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, “All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.” And they did.”
    —Diane Arbus (1923–1971)

    “A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!”
    —Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897)

    “Think of sweet and chocolate,
    Left to folly or to fate,
    Whom the higher gods forgot,
    Whom the lower gods berate;
    Physical and underfed
    Fancying on the featherbed ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)