Quotes about flower
flower mushrooms lakes
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers. Roberto Bolano
flower secret looks
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
flower feet long
I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly. Robert Southey
flower grateful ignorance
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty. Sarah Orne Jewett
flower voice office
Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath. Sarah Rees Brennan
flower sacrifice maturity
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Vincent Nichols
flower moving bird
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. William Henry Hudson
flower blow rose
Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes. Willa Cather
flower dark blue
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it. Willa Cather
flower garden flowers-growing
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. Vincent Van Gogh
flower paved-roads grows
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. Vincent Van Gogh
flower ivy greenery
How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. Vincent Van Gogh
flower too-late fruit
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. Walter de La Mare
flower men rose
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. Walter de La Mare
flower pages shakespeares-sonnets
O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! Virginia Woolf
flower light long
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself. Virginia Woolf
flower fall mind
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. Virginia Woolf
flower tree darkness
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. Virginia Woolf
flower
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself. Virginia Woolf
flower wine sleep
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief. Virginia Woolf
flower practice rose
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. Virginia Woolf
flower mrs-dalloway said
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Virginia Woolf
flower thinking soil
For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking. William Bernbach
flower night moon
The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. William Blake
flower angel waiting
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. Samuel Smiles
flower color may
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
flower love-is tree
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
flower fall rain
The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers W. H. Auden
flower fall nurse
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. W. H. Auden
flower giving dancing
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. William Cowper
flower eye inspire
Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth Happy who walks with him! William Cowper
flower earth virtue
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue. William Cowper
flower force millions
God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force. Wayne Dyer