Nancy Astor Quotes

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.

We can't all have gleaming grass, cut to the millimetre, perfectly manicured and watered when needed and looked after by 10 groundsmen. Not everyone can be at these clubs.

I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

You might be a redneck if it's easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

I mow my own lawn.

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

I do the gardening.