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The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.' -- Lesley Nicol
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. -- Charles Baudelaire
My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.' -- Luanne Rice
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. -- Wendell Berry
He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great. -- Robert Creeley
As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful. -- Kieran Scott
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. -- Immanuel Velikovsky
Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing. -- Ezra Cornell
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. -- William Lawson
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. -- Emily Dickinson
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . -- Charles Dickens
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit. -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that. -- Rumi
Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree. -- Gertrude Stein
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors. -- Henry Ward Beecher
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. -- Jane Grigson
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. -- Khalil Gibran
A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos. -- Yehuda Amichai
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. -- Katherine Mansfield
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself. -- Michel de Montaigne
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted. -- Walter de La Mare
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite .... -- Aeschylus
Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. -- Ezra Cornell
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. -- Thomas Dekker
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose. -- Joel Salatin
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. -- Moshe Dayan
After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home. -- Will Hobbs
It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career. -- Jacob K. Javits
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden. -- Luanne Rice
You'll never be alone in the bone orchard. -- Elvis Costello
Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard. -- Rachael Ray
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. -- Walt Whitman
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a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard. -- Lauren Weisberger
In the heart of every apple is an entire orchard waiting only to be planted. -- Thorstan Osborne
Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did, someone else would own the orchard. -- Lewis Grizzard
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. -- Judah Halevi
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache. -- James Russell Lowell
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . . -- William Wordsworth
I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money. -- Steven Herrick
You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?. -- Pat McBride
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground. -- James Boswell
In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her. -- Nadifa Mohamed
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off -- Archibald MacLeish
I was ripe ten years ago. Now Iâ??m merely preserved, and before long Iâ??ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.â? -Amanda to Jack -- Lisa Kleypas
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. -- Rufus Wainwright
By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love. -- Rumi
In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder. -- John Drinkwater
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew. -- Samuel Woodworth
He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost
An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row. -- Katherine Mansfield
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees. -- Anna Sewell

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