Quotes about flower
flower garden race
I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more. Savitri Devi
flower wind may
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. Siegfried Sassoon
flower modesty sincerity
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
flower fighting bridges
I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges. Scott Thompson
flower oxford mirrors
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone. Oscar Wilde
flower bird guilt
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it. Maeve Binchy
flower fighting men
I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life. Madonna Ciccone
flower people inspire
The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.
flower hoe dirt
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. Lyman Abbott
flower heart autumn
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. Lydia M. Child
flower vex bitterness
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. Lucretius
flower rain heart
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
flower enchantment paradise
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
flower bitter fountain
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
flower heart delight
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
flower wind sea
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being. Lorrie Moore
flower white lines
When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff. Melissa Joan Hart
flower book ties
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together. Michel de Montaigne
flower pieces honey
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.
flower together thread
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
flower thinking listening
Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases. Michael Schumacher
flower years hawaii
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. Mark Twain
flower giving joy
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love. Marianne Williamson
flower america greek
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. Melina Mercouri
flower doe restaurants
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. Mason Cooley
flower principles helping
Science is about principles. It's about concepts. It's not about memorizing the parts of a flower. It helps to know some of these things, but if that's all you do that's not science, science is about principles and concepts. Michio Kaku
flower moon cities
Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing. Martha Wells
flower messages visible
Flowers are like visible messages from God. Marie Corelli
flower grief years
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules. Mike Mills
flower moving animal
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof. John Ruskin
flower men giving
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.
flower men sea
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
flower delight firsts
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.