Flower Quotes
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This universe is a fan of you. Watch the flowers in the morning, how they open towards the same sun that spends it's whole day following you.
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.
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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
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We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.
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Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.
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May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.
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Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
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Nobodoy can make anybody else learn anything. You can't make them.Any more than if you are a gardener you make flowers grow. You don't make the flowers grow. You don't stick the petals on the leaves and paint it. The flower grows itself. Your job if you are any good at it, is to provide the optimal conditions for growth.
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Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.
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And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
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Justice is like some unnatural hybrid flower you people have bred. It will not live long unless you keep it sheltered and warm.
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To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.
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When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.
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The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.
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Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose mankind will all agree. The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.
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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.
