Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Schumacher

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.

Mark Twain

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

Alexandre Dumas

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

Olivia will be the flower girl and Vinnie will be the ring bearer. I think we'll have to tie the ring around him.

Jerry Spinelli

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

Jerry Spinelli

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

Jeffrey Eugenides

My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

Jesse Jackson

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

Jean Giraudoux

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Ingelow

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Jean Ingelow

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Jean Ingelow

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

Jean Ingelow

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

Jean Houston

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

George Harrison

I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.

George Harrison

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

Gary Snyder

stay together learn the flowers go light

Gary Zukav

Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Evan Esar

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

Ethel Waters

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Eudora Welty

Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

Ernest Holmes

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Collins

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days

Francis Bacon

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.