Flowers Quotes
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
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I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
