Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

John Betjeman

And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky

Angie Cox

The goal of the show is to raise money for scholarships for seniors soon to graduate and for those who graduated this past December. One of the requirements for the scholarship is to be a resident of Flower Mound.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

Og Mandino

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

Omar Khayyam

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Octave Mirbeau

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.

Octave Mirbeau

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

Aristotle

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

George Toups

You have to take care of these animals 365 days of the year. It's not just a Monday through Friday type of job.

Corey Feldman

I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

Andy Warhol

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

Anatole France

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.

Anais Nin

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

Anjelica Huston

I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

Frank Ogden

The problem with doing a wild animal is it needs a sling, but you can't with a wild animal because he would just tear it off there.

James Stephens

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

Nelly Furtado

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away ...

Cassandra Clare

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

Carly Simon

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

P. L. Travers

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Kristin Kreuk

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

Mohsin Hamid

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Mike Thompson

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

Kathy Freston

We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.