Flowers Quotes
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa
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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.
Gautama Buddha
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Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.
Hannah Hurnard
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Remember that there is always some good in people who love flowers.
Esther Hautzig
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On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.
Ray Fearon
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
Albert Camus
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
George Peele
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Words, like flowers, have their colors too.
Ernest Rhys
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It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .
Charles Dickens
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That evening was the evening of the full moon. The garden was an enchanted place where all the flowers seemed white. The lilies, the daphnes, the orange-blossom, the white stocks, the white pinks, the white roses - you could see these as plainly as in the daytime; but the coloured flowers existed only as fragrance.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
Dante Alighieri
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Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.
Elizabeth Kata
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I want to see little children adorning every home, as flowers adorn every meadow and every way-side. I want to see them welcomed to the homes they enter, to see their parents grow less and less selfish and more and more loving, because they have come. I want to see God's precious gifts accepted, not frowned upon and refused.
Elizabeth Prentiss