Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

William Bernbach

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 Blake

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

Samuel Smiles

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 Taylor Coleridge

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

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

W. H. Auden

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

W. H. Auden

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.

William Cowper

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.

Charles Bukowski

Angels, we have grown apart.

Victor Hugo

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

Victor Hugo

Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.

Victor Hugo

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Victor Hugo

O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

Victor Hugo

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Viktor E. Frankl

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

Val Guest

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Malachy McCourt

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Heather Donahue

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

Henry James

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Henry James

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Greer Garson

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

John Dryden

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

John Maynard Smith

So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a second. If we want to discover generalizations about evolving systems, we will have to look at artificial ones.