Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

Marianne Williamson

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

Frederic Chopin

Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.

George Chapman

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

Gertrude Stein

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Hans Christian Andersen

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Francesca Lia Block

the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you. i didn’t mean to but your tears will bring life back. purple flowers grow, the colour blood looks in the veins. they’ll sprout out of my chest. i promise you they’ll crack the ground, grow over the freeways, down the slopes to the sea. i’ll be in their faces. i’ll be in the waves, coming down from the sky. i’ll be inside the one who holds you. and then i won’t be.

Francesca Lia Block

The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.

Francesca Lia Block

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

Francesca Lia Block

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

Francesca Lia Block

She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.

Francesca Lia Block

You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...

Frances Mayes

...outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns...

George Washington Carver

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

George Washington Carver

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

George Santayana

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

George Meredith

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

John Ruskin

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

John Ruskin

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

John Ruskin

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

John Ruskin

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

John Milton

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

John Milton

Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

John Milton

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

John Milton

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Noel Gallagher

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

Robert Herrick

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

Robert Herrick

The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup; I'll drink to the garlands around it; But first unto those Whose hands did compose The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

The goal of the show is to raise money for scholarships for seniors soon to graduate and for those who graduated this past December. One of the requirements for the scholarship is to be a resident of Flower Mound.

Bill Bradley

The game is still full of joy and the lessons learned from it stay with you . . . even though the game has changed, the old values still flow through it.

Edie Sedgwick

It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wander around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile. You can tell by people's eyes.

Edith Hamilton

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.