Kabir Quotes

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• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• 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
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• 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
  • Flower
  • Treatment
  • Sexist

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Tree

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• 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
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Flower

• 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
  • Flower
  • Latin
  • Bold

• Because I do not hope to knowThe infirm glory of the positive hourBecause I do not thinkBecause I know I shall not knowThe one veritable transitory powerBecause I cannot drinkThere, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hope
  • Positive
  • Flower

• Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Summer
  • Flower

• 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
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Flower

• A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Light
  • Flower

• 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
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Dark

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Flower

• The flower of olden sanctities.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Flower

• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Cry
  • Owl

• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White
  • Moving
  • Leadership
  • Perspective

• Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Mother
  • Leader

• (To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)

  

  Larry Wall

• All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Breadth

• When the flower opens, the bees will come.

  

  Kabir
  • Flower
  • Bees