Gardening Retirement Quotes

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

When one door closes another one opens but if you keep looking back at the closed one you'll never see the one that's open ahead of you. ~ Christopher Sharp

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~ Joan Rivers

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. ~ Helen Hayes

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. ~ John Sharp Williams

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. ~ Margaret Mead

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been. ~ John Anthony West

A garden is a grand teacher ... above all it teaches entire trust. ~ Gertrude Jekyll

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away! ~ Stephen Hawking

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue. ~ David Gill

We have to thank God for this retirement. ~ Virgil

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. ~ Michael Pollan

Old teachers never die, they just grade away. ~ Henny Youngman

Garden as though you will live forever. ~ William Kent

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. ~ Allan Armitage

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ~ Phyllis Theroux

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives. ~ Gertrude Jekyll

Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination. ~ Richie Norton

COMMON SENSE CONCLUSION: Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and effectively manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing conditions of our times. ~ Lee Johnson

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die. ~ Yasunari Kawabata

Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration. ~ Louise Erickson

To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today. ~ Suze Orman

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too. ~ Bill Vaughan

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. ~ Jimmy Breslin

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't really have a retirement plan. ~ Bob Dylan

Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62. ~ Ken Buck

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill. ~ David Blanchflower

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system. ~ Sue Kelly

The garden that is finished is dead. ~ H.E. Bates

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable. ~ Jan Struther

Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college. ~ Jean Chatzky

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them ~ Frank Eberhart

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? ~ David Attenborough

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security. ~ Suze Orman

I don't believe in retirement. ~ Stuart Rose

I do the gardening. ~ Ken Livingstone

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. ~ Vigen Guroian

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. ~ Jan Struther

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home! ~ Carol Vorderman

Gardening always has been an art, essentially. ~ Robert Irwin

Gardening is not a rational act. ~ Margaret Atwood

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

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. ~ Hilarie Burton

Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field. ~ Sid Gillman

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. ~ Eve Best

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. ~ Earl Nightingale

The best thing about retirement is not having to wear pants! ~ Mark Hewer

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money. ~ David Letterman

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. ~ Gene Perret

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. ~ Rudyard Kipling

If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare. ~ Mike Huckabee

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. ~ David Chang

Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams. ~ Milagros Cabral

[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy. ~ Martin Short

is time that we started reclaiming the idea of retirement. Retirement is not the finish line; it is the new beginning. Retirement is not your last paragraph; it is the long, rich, rewarding final chapters of your own book - as many pages as you can dream up. Retirement is not the end of your life; it is the beginning of the best years of your life! But ~ Chris Hogan

Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth. ~ Ron Brackin

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week. ~ Vince McMahon

Tip #3: Taking the Next Step(s) ~ Mary Helen Conroy

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds. ~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement. ~ Paul Tournier

However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement. ~ Witness Lee

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. ~ Charles Saatchi

Tip #2: No more alarm clocks ~ Mary Helen Conroy

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement. ~ Keanu Reeves

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world. ~ George Foreman

Absolutely invest in retirement. You can always get a loan to get kids through school. I do not know of any loans to get you through retirement. The markets are seriously low from where they were (even though they've gone up 30 percent recently). Now is the time to be dollar cost averaging; the more money you put in, the more shares you buy. Save for your retirement, people. ~ Suze Orman

I think that places, like people, ought to have boundaries. Who ever said that gardening was a public activity, anyway? Gardening, like making love, feels a lot better than it looks. Nobody buys tickets to gardening competitions. There's no such thing as the Gardening Olympics. There is no gold medal in Speed Weeding or Double Digging. Maybe there should be, but I wouldn't compete in a gardening Olympiad for all the compost in China. I go through ungainly contortions when I garden. I squat. I crawl around on my hands and knees. Most of the time I bend over, upended. That angle may be flattering to a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader, but it is not flattering to me. ~ Cassandra Danz

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. ~ Texas Bix Bender

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. ~ Jennifer Saunders

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ~ Dixie Lee Ray

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. ~ Clive Anderson

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. ~ S. Kelley Harrell

The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club. ~ Cassandra Clare

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. ~ Hillary Clinton

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little. ~ Anna Bartlett Warner

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player. ~ Virender Sehwag

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. ~ Alexander Smith

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan. ~ Virgil Goode

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. ~ Eda LeShan

Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement ~ Drake

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. ~ Willie Stargell

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income. ~ Scott Cook

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball) ~ Charles Barkley

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal. ~ Suze Orman

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost. ~ Guy Browning

Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle. ~ Dick Morris

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. ~ Claude Monet

Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying. ~ David Wheeler

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement. ~ Charles Duhigg

Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. ~ Erasmus Darwin

Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions. ~ Richard Thaler

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik