Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corrie Ten Boom

When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

Cornelia Funke

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

Cornelia Funke

Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

Cormac McCarthy

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

Cormac McCarthy

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

David Simon

Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

Corita Kent

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corey Feldman

It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.

Cyndi Lauper

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Dave Matthews

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

David Letterman

Here's my problem. On Valentine's Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.

David Gemmell

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Deepak Chopra

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

Deepak Chopra

A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

Angelus Silesius

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

Alfred de Musset

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers. The sap of your life will dissipate into the formation of a useless bark; all your actions will be as colorless as the leaves of the willow; you will have no tears to water you, but those from your own eyes, to nourish you, no heart but your own.

Alfred Austin

Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

Alfred Austin

Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.

Alfred Austin

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

Angela Carter

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Anthony Burgess

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

Herman Edwards

He'll be in the flow of the game, we hope we don't get into a game that's 70, 80 plays. If he can get 20-something plays in, that would be great. We want to rotate those guys because it's going to be hot out there.

I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels.

Robert Parker

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.

I think it's a tragedy when you have things like this that interrupt the flow of good legislative policy.

It could have been better. We made some mistakes, but that happens. Once we got into the flow of the game, we played pretty well.

I think the guys are just getting in the flow of the season. If it were the middle of June and we were playing this way I'd be upset.

William Wilberforce

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

William Wilberforce

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

We have to be more patient and get things in the flow of the offense.

We maintain a perfect safety record. We've flown over 8 million people without incident.

We made some adjustments at halftime and the kids started seeing the flow more. We gave it an effort. Defensively, we just didn't play as well as we have been.