Quotes about flower
flower pygmalion fit
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. George Bernard Shaw
flower smell noses
What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some kind of flower." My first thought: Hurray! I don't stink. My second: Ohmygod! Gena Showalter
flower thinking glasses
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass? Galway Kinnell
flower bud all-things
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower
flower blessing self
...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...
flower jewels orange
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. Galileo Galilei
flower start surprise
Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted.
flower fruit produce
The seed, planted out season, does not germinate; it does not produce flower or fruit
flower son safety
This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos. James Hilton
flower alive like-you
You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower. James Dobson
flower snow focus
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. Janet Fitch
flower moving apology
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
flower dwelling hats
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.
flower lovely
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.
flower today petals
What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions. Carolyn Kizer
flower thinking space
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
flower moving home
My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.
flower color-white shining
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. Gilbert K. Chesterton
flower men roots
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
flower school men
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. Jim Butcher
flower identity garlands
One flower makes no garland. George Herbert
flower men tree
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. Jean de la Bruyere
flower mouths
I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me. Jay-Z
flower water vases
If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy. Jay McInerney
flower valentine people
I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand? Jay Leno
flower believe men
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers. Muriel Spark
flower men
Beware of men bearing flowers.
flower men agnostic
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. Karl Marx
flower sea soul
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! Jules Verne
flower exercise two
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. Julia Cameron
flower creativity green
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
flower animal giving
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. Joseph Joubert
flower simple expression
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.