Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Chaucer

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

George Jean Nathan

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

George Herbert

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

Christina Rossetti

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

George Orwell

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

George R. R. Martin

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

George R. R. Martin

Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.

George Carlin

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

Garry Winogrand

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

Gail Sheehy

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

Fernando Pessoa

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

Felicia Hemans

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Collins

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days

Francis Atterbury

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Francis Bacon

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Francis Bacon

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Michael Gambon

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Joan Fontaine

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

I'm more in the flow of the game. Last year, it was like pinch-hitting three times.

Tim Thomas

I'm just going with the flow now. I'd seen tape of the previous game and knew how high the score was. It's just a matter of me getting a better feel each and every game with my own teammates and my own sets here.

Ernest Holmes

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

Henry Miller

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

Henry Miller

All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.