Lao Tzu Quotes
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
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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
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But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
Walter Scott
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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
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.
Jenova Chen
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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham
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Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
Jody Watley
Shalamar
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If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
Albert Einstein
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I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.
Sherman Alexie
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
Gautama Buddha
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
Natalie Wood
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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Lao Tzu
