Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

Victor Hugo

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

Victor Hugo

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

Victor Hugo

In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet.

Victor Hugo

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Stephen Covey

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Vanna Bonta

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Suzanne Collins

Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.

Suzanne Collins

Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling creation with blue-green, white-tipped icing waves swimming with fish and sailboats, seals and sea flowers. But I push my way through the crowd to confirm what I knew at first sight. As surely as the embroidery stitches in Annie's gown were done by Cinna's hand, the frosted flowers on the cake were done by Peeta's.

Suzanne Collins

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

Suzanne Collins

Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

Suzanne Collins

It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.

Suzanne Collins

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

Sophocles

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Stephen King

Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

Starhawk

Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

Sophie Swetchine

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Stephenie Meyer

I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner." - Wanda, The Host

Tanith Lee

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

Tamora Pierce

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

Sylvia Plath

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Rollo May

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

Rupert Brooke

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.

Rumi

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Rumi

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Rumi

Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

Rumi

Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.

Rumi

Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching.

Toni Cade Bambara

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Shirley MacLaine

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Sue Townsend

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Robert Burns

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.