Anne Geddes Quotes

I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

Anne Geddes

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• 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

• 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

• Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

  

  Gary Larson
  • Small
  • Miracle
  • Week

• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Miracle

• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Broken

• 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

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Love
  • For Her

• 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

• Can you look at a flower without thinking?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thinking
  • Flower

• Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Flower

• There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

  

  David Hume
  • Good
  • Men
  • History

• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Time
  • Miracle

• 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
  • Good
  • Song
  • Responsibility

• My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Depression
  • Miracle
  • Recovery

• Coconut oil is one of them. I call it miracle oil because you can literally do everything with it. I have it in the kitchen, and then I also have it in the bathroom. It's great as a hair mask, too; I actually put it on my hair yesterday.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Miracle

• Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Flower
  • Rose
  • Lovely

• Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

  

  Confucius
  • Path
  • Leader
  • Let

• You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Live
  • Experience

• If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

  

  Anne Geddes
  • Flower
  • Miracle
  • Newborn