Quotes about flower
flower grandmother thinking
My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe Jandy Nelson
flower rain color
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
flower air desert
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. Jane Austen
flower garden thinking
Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.
flower thinking fruit
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
flower poverty resentment
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Carson McCullers
flower school kids
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful. Carol Burnett
flower know-how knows
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying Alan Furst
flower hunting owl
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. Alan Garner
flower garden rainbow
A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together. Charles Kingsley
flower humble cat
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district! Charles Darwin
flower smell nocturnal
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening.
flower bees grind
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Charles A. Beard
flower home too-much
I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day. Billie Piper
flower expression bridges
Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. Eckhart Tolle
flower tree looks
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
flower essence bird
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.
flower shining mind
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
flower boss utterance
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase. Edward Ruscha
flower men two
It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates. Brandon Sanderson
flower giving goodness
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle
flower smell giving
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
flower sleep smell
The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed. Argus Hamilton
flower making-love way
A flower is a plant's way of making love. Barbara Kingsolver
flower guy plastic-flowers
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things. Bai Ling
flower opportunity tiny
Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest. Brian Herbert
flower dark garden
I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do. Brian Andreas
flower forests wide
The flowers of the forest are a' wide awae. Jane Elliott
flower garden needs
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. Jane Goodall
flower men artist
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. James Whistler
flower trying benches
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder. Charles Bukowski
flower i-hate-you hands
I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.
flower one-day grows
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. Arthur Golden