Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

Felicia Hemans

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Collins

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days

Francis Bacon

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Francis Bacon

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Ernest Holmes

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

Henry Miller

All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Helen Keller

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Helen Keller

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Helen Keller

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

Helen Keller

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Cassandra Clare

Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

George Eliot

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Janet Fitch

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Cassandra Clare

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

Cassandra Clare

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

Cassandra Clare

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

Carolyn Kizer

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

Evangeline Lilly

When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"

Evangeline Lilly

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

Muriel Spark

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Muriel Spark

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Jim Butcher

Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I’m a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

George Herbert

One flower makes no garland.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

Jay-Z

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.