Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

William Wilberforce

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

Michael Thompson

Humans plant every tree and flower they can, ... They make gardens everywhere.

Oprah Winfrey

I did send flowers and I did send a note

Paul Simon

Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.

Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Richard P. Feynman

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

Richard P. Feynman

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

Richard Whately

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Simon Crisford

He's a lovely colt. He hasn't worked yet. Hopefully, he'll be out in the middle of the summer.

Alexander Hanson

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

Michael Sheard

He was scary but as an actor Mr Bronson was a lovely part to play,

S. Hughes

He is a lovely lad. He just has to get used to the hurly burly of it.

Richard Barnfield

If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.

William Maxwell

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

Roald Dahl

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Sara Teasdale

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

Sanjay Dutt

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

Noel Fisher

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

Marianne Severson

He made it, I mean, thank goodness. He made it out just in time.

William Wycherley

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

Samuel Johnson

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

William Blake

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

Robert Penn Warren

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Phillips Brooks

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness

Khaled Hosseini

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Rabindranath Tagore

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.