Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Caryl Churchill

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

Carl Jung

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Duane Michals

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

In this class, you can unwind. When I grow up and have my own house, I want to know how to plant flowers and trees in my yard.

Jack Kornfield

It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

J. D. Salinger

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

Italo Calvino

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.

Isabella Rossellini

To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.

Irwin Shaw

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

Jack Kerouac

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

Jack Kerouac

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

Isaac Watts

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Isaac Watts

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

Isaac Watts

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Isaac Watts

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

Graeme Murphy

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

Gertrude Jekyll

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Gertrude Jekyll

If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.

Harry Chapin

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Gwendolyn Brooks

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up.'

Especially now with the boho influence, the hippie and gypsy looks -- they have Latin roots. Embroidery, embellishment, color, flowers and beading are important to Latinas and to Latin American history.

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into

Flowers are one of the only things you have from the wedding that you can look at and go back to that day, instead of just pictures. They're also a piece of art. My husband and I didn't have ours done at our wedding, and it's something I really regret because they were so beautiful.

As is the fragrance which He bestows, so is the fragrant flower known.

Catherine Martin

Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.

The seed, planted out season, does not germinate; it does not produce flower or fruit

Karl Marx

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Jules Verne

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

Julia Cameron

There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.