Bertran de Born Quotes

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

Bertran de Born

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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

• Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Black
  • Water
  • Popular

• 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

• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Stop
  • Best

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Single
  • Design
  • Flower

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

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Flower

• When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Positive

• Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Flower
  • Hippie

• 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
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Everyday

• The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Heaven
  • Flower

• Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Flower
  • Breathe
  • Grow

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Help
  • Light
  • Dark

• Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

  

  Bertran de Born
  • Flower
  • Leaf
  • Sweet time