Quotes about flower
flower wine age-love
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine Thomas More
flower butterfly moon
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds. Thomas Hood
flower winter rose
It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed! Thomas Hood
flower butterfly autumn
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! Thomas Hood
flower italian greek
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. Thomas Starr King
flower men wife
A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet. Sam Ewing
flower blessing law
The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever. Russell M. Nelson
flower government democracy
Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. Ronald Reagan
flower years tree
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others. S. Truett Cathy
flower blessed garden
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil. Ruth Pitter
flower breathing names
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing. Rumi
flower white tongue
A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower. Rumi
flower heart light
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi
flower home garden
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being. Rumi
flower heart thorns
To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart. Rumi
flower heart opening
What is the Heart? A flower opening... Rumi
flower orchids waiting
When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them and worship them and try to breed new and specific kinds of them and then be willing to wait for nearly a decade for one of them to flower. Susan Orlean
flower garden justice
Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. Sukarno
flower ants fruit
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole Stevie Smith
flower tree trying
nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ... Stevie Smith
flower sunshine self
Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self. Sonia Choquette
flower water needs
It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. Sonny Rollins
flower fall sleep
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow. Robert Graves
flower climbing joy
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy Robert Green Ingersoll
flower men climbing
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor. Robert Green Ingersoll
flower people
Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life. Sandra Cisneros
flower thinking knives
My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges. Sandra Cisneros
flower men wind
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence. Samuel Johnson
flower garden shade
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers. Samuel Johnson
flower heart journey
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. Robert Jordan
flower sunset sky
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower. Roberto Bolano
flower mushrooms lakes
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers. Roberto Bolano
flower secret looks
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.