Flowers Quotes
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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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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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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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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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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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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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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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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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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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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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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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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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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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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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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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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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?
