Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

Smokey Robinson

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Mercedes Lackey

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn’t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.’ (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don’t know how. (Zarek)

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.

John Newman

I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.

John Muir

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

John Muir

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

John Templeton

A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.

John Sterling

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Marie Corelli

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

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.

Max Muller

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

May Sarton

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

May Sarton

When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.

May Sarton

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

May Sarton

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Meg Cabot

[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.

Matsuo Basho

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

Matsuo Basho

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Matsuo Basho

For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice

Matsuo Basho

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Matsuo Basho

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.