Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de La Fontaine

No path of flowers leads to glory.

Jean de La Fontaine

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Harper Lee

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

Halldor Laxness

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

Gregory Maguire

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

Homaro Cantu

The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

Igor Sikorsky

If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Igor Sikorsky

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

He's a playmaker. He understands the flow of the game. He understands when things have to be done.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

George Bernard Shaw

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

Gena Showalter

What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some kind of flower." My first thought: Hurray! I don't stink. My second: Ohmygod!

Galway Kinnell

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

Galway Kinnell

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower

Galway Kinnell

...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...

Galileo Galilei

If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

Eric Snow

Nowadays, if you can't do it within the flow of the game you can't do it. It was a one-on-one incident, we're not out there to hurt someone.

Telecoms are gaining flow -- they are cheap, have good fundamentals and are liquid.

Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted.

Buddy Bell

It was the other extreme, but a guy like Santana can do that to you. He can make things look real lethargic. The game just didn't have a flow to it.

The seed, planted out season, does not germinate; it does not produce flower or fruit

A win is a win, but the game sure was ugly. Good grief, we hit just six of 37 shots. Neither team could get into the flow of their offense because of turnovers and fouls. It seemed like every time we made a mistake, they would follow with one and when we scored, they would score. It was that type of game all night.

That's good news. That tax money will be flowing into the county.

That game didn't have any rhythm or flow to it. It was just very ugly from the get-go.

Reggie Jackson

This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

This will be my first time going to Cancun. Some of the girls have never flown before. We're looking forward to a great trip.

What we are seeing is (a) flow making its way down the lower San Joaquin.

We just got the momentum and got into the flow of the game.

There's no getting around it until you get into the flow of things, especially as a reliever. It takes at least once to get out there and slow down.

We mixed up our defenses a little better and I substituted a little earlier, which helped our legs. I thought we had better flow offensively, too.

We turned it over too many times. Our offensive flow was off. We're just not with it.