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.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Evan Esar

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Estella Warren

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Jeanette Winterson

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

Jehane Noujaim

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Erica Jong

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Ginnifer Goodwin

No matter how much love is there, these aren't two people who are actually good for each other. They don't help each other grow. They stifle each other's growth.

Gerry Spence

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

James Dickey

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.

Janet Evanovich

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

Cassandra Clare

Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

Horace

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Henry David Thoreau

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Henry David Thoreau

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Gregory Maguire

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.