Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonny Rollins

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

Stephen Spender

Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

Srikumar Rao

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

Sri Chinmoy

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

Ruth Brown

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

Ruta Sepetys

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

Sam Shepard

People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn't feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.

W. H. Auden

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

W. H. Auden

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

William Cowper

Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth Happy who walks with him!

William Cowper

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

Wayne Dyer

I have enough...and I allow what I already have enough of to flow to me.

Wayne Dyer

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.

Vasily Grossman

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

Van Morrison

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

William Golding

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

William Allingham

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

Wilferd Peterson

Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By continuously practicing good will we cultivate a deep subconscious habit of good will. It becomes a pattern of our response in all situations. Good will works as silently as the sun and with as much power. It thaws the ice and snow of resistance and indifference. It warms and wins human hearts. It draws forth the best in others as flowers are drawn from the soil. It stimulates growth.

Wilferd Peterson

As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.

William P. Young

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Zadie Smith

And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.