Flower Quotes
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I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.
Sandra Cisneros
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Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?
Alfred William Howitt
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The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
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Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.
Celia Thaxter
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Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.
Eudora Welty
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I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
Ray Bradbury
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But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
Vincent Van Gogh
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
William P. Young
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As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.
Gautama Buddha
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Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
Herbert Spencer
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Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.
Isaac Watts
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
Evan Esar
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He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds
Richard Feynman
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The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.
Russell M. Nelson
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
Haruki Murakami
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
William Cullen Bryant
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Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
Charles Demuth
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How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
Cennino Cennini
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
Ray Bradbury
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
Stephen Covey
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Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
Eudora Welty