Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

John Ruskin

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

John Ruskin

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

John Ruskin

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

John Milton

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

John Milton

Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

John Milton

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

John Milton

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Noel Gallagher

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

Theodore Parker

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

Theodore Roosevelt

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

Thabo Mbeki

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

Michael Foley

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Melissa Marr

Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.

Michael Palin

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Paul Gauguin

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

Paris Hilton

A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.

Padma Lakshmi

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

Lillie Langtry

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

Leigh Hunt

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Pablo Picasso

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

Rajneesh

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Rajneesh

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

Rajneesh

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

Rajneesh

First become a Zorba, a flower of this earth, and earn the capacity through it to become a Buddha - the flower of the other world. The other world is not away from this world; the other world is not against this world: the other world is hidden in this. This is only a manifestataion of the other, and the other is the unmanifest part of this.

Rajneesh

The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it.

Rajneesh

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.