Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
Brown Campbell -
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen -
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Imagining the flower-pot attacked itThe kitten flung the violets near and farAnd yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,My car was set upon by a parked car.
Vikram Seth -
A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
Walter Scott -
It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
Rabindranath Tagore -
Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.
Antonio Porchia -
I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
Marianne Faithfull -
I brought the film like a flower to the world.
Claude Chabrol -
Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.
Aerin Lauder -
The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.
Pedro Almodovar -
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
John Dryden
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost -
Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.
Jody Watley Shalamar -
I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Jennifer Aniston -
There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.
Charlotte Bingham -
More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.
Karl Taylor Compton -
The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
Rumi