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.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Christy Porter

We weren't giving up. We had gotten this far.

Trent Strickland

We showed a lot of heart. We seniors talked a lot about giving it all we had and leaving everything on the floor. We've thought all year that we were better than we have showed.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Doris Lessing

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Doris Lessing

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.