Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Ewing

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

Tanith Lee

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

Tamora Pierce

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

Sylvia Plath

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Swami Vivekananda

Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life...

Roy Moore

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Rollo May

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

Rupert Brooke

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.

Rumi

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Rumi

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Rumi

Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

Rumi

Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.

Rumi

Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching.

Rumi

Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it.

Toni Cade Bambara

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Stephen Covey

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Stephen Covey

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Steven Erikson

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Shirley MacLaine

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Shakti Gawain

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

Sue Townsend

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Robert Burns

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

Robert Burns

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Robert Browning

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Robert Browning

Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

Robert Browning

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

Robert Browning

Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

Richard Adams

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.

Sydney J. Harris

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Jostein Gaarder

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.