Famous Quotes & Sayings

Smokey Robinson

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Mercedes Lackey

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn’t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.’ (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don’t know how. (Zarek)

Theodore Roosevelt

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

Thabo Mbeki

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

Michael Foley

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Melissa Marr

Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.

Michael Ovitz

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Michael Palin

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Ray Bradbury

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

Ray Bradbury

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

Ray Bradbury

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

Ralph Nader

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

Eric Hoffer

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

The flow (of traffic) seems to be slower than it used to be, so I think they're working.

The flow of traffic is easier. It shows well.

The flow of goods is still happening around the world. That can only point to good things for the global economy.

The flow in the stock is very big, which is also propping it up.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Letitia Baldrige

The flower generation tore tradition to shreds, but in the 1980s some magic sewing machine has stitched it all up again.

Steve Goodman

The first third is always hard because I'm not loose, but by the time I get to the end I'm really flowing and feel really good.

James Anthony Froude

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Helen Hunt

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Fisher

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

Henry David Thoreau

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Matsuo Basho

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Matsuo Basho

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

Matsuo Basho

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.