Flowers Quotes
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis -
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?
Camille Henrot -
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe -
Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.
Elizabeth Kata -
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.
Eddie Mair -
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 -
Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
Elena Ferrante -
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 -
It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
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 -
Remember that there is always some good in people who love flowers.
Esther Hautzig -
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
Alexandre Dumas -
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
George Peele -
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi -
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 -
I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers to be had by heat and constant coaxing, but then for each of these there are fifty others still lovelier that will gratefully grow in God's wholesome air and are blessed in return with a far greater intensity of scent and colour.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa -
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
Albert Camus -
Words, like flowers, have their colors too.
Ernest Rhys