Quotes about flower
flower opportunity speech
There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech. Aldo Leopold
flower blessed garden
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at. Aldous Huxley
flower
The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
flower bridges agony
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy. Aberjhani
flower eye garden
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
flower organization humanist
Power is the flower of organization. A. Philip Randolph
flower writing two
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more. A. E. Hotchner
flower farewell heart
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word. A. E. Housman
flowers guess named negatively neutral sensitive
On some level, we're sensitive to negatively stigmatizing people. I guess they could have named (hurricanes) after flowers or other neutral things.
flower grandmother thinking
My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe Jandy Nelson
flower rain color
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
flower air desert
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. Jane Austen
flower garden thinking
Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.
flower thinking fruit
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
flowery honour past paths plains
I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation. Ben Jonson
flowers note send
I did send flowers and I did send a note Oprah Winfrey
flower struggle roots
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. Carl Sandburg
flower poverty resentment
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Carson McCullers
flower school kids
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful. Carol Burnett
flower know-how knows
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying Alan Furst
flower hunting owl
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. Alan Garner
flower garden rainbow
A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together. Charles Kingsley
flower humble cat
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district! Charles Darwin
flower smell nocturnal
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening.
flower bees grind
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Charles A. Beard
flower wings half
I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things. Arthur Symons
flower perfect literature
Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.
flower years orange
At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood. Anton Yelchin
flower garden wind
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you? Antonio Machado
flower sunshine blossoming
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. Antonio Porchia
flower winter views
That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since. Brother Lawrence
flower pride rose
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime. Edmund Spenser
flower rose red
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.