Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Evan Esar

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

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.'

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.

Mao Zedong

Let one thousand flowers bloom.

Mao Zedong

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

Lytton Strachey

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

Louise Bogan

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Louisa May Alcott

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

John Gay

The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.

Jonathan Davis

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Jonas Mekas

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

Katarina Witt

I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the illuminating Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom.