Quotes about flower
flower enchantment paradise
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. Lucretius
flower bitter fountain
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
flower heart delight
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
flower wind sea
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being. Lorrie Moore
flower white lines
When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff. Melissa Joan Hart
flower world gone
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. Mark Twain
flower thinking care
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
flower men years
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
flower writing simple
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.
flower heart rose
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.
flower kissing color
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change. Nick Hornby
flower order games
... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game. Marian Keyes
flower fall autumn
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost. John Greenleaf Whittier
flower fall power
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
flower vases rooms
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers. John Green
flower greatness age
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now. Patti Smith
flower views years
Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side. Ozzy Osbourne
flower happy-things
Flowers are happy things. P. G. Wodehouse
flower eye maturity
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity. Mary Wollstonecraft
flower heart names
Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name. Mary Howitt
flower men garden
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.
flower
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
flower rain land
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do. Mary Hunter Austin
flower garden years
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. Mark Haddon
flower people personality
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there. Marguerite Young
flower book ties
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together. Michel de Montaigne
flower pieces honey
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.
flower together thread
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
flower thinking listening
Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases. Michael Schumacher
flower years hawaii
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
flower giving joy
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love. Marianne Williamson
flower struggle garden
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.
flower matter way
No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.