Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Charlize Theron

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

Charles Macklin

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

Charles Mackay

There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles M. Schwab

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.

Charles Fourier

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Bill Maher

BP today finally managed to almost completely stop the flow of information.

Bill Maher

New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bob Hoskins

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

Yeah it helps you get loose faster. I was ready to play today but you just don't prepare the same way. But, yeah, it helped me get into the flow quicker.

Edna O'Brien

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Edgar Quinet

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

Edgar Guest

The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

Benjamin Franklin

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

Arthur Golden

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We have much to hope from the flowers.

Anton Chekhov

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

Arvo Part

A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

Arundhati Roy

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...

Ariel Sharon

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Ariel Sharon

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

We're not an offense that can get everything back in one chunk. When you have an offense like that, you are relying on patience. Sometimes maturity is something that allows patience to happen. They weren't forcing us into doing anything we didn't want to do, but regardless the penalties and the mistakes we were making were negating any flow of momentum we had.

William Shakespeare

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

William Shakespeare

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.