Flowers Quotes
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
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We would love to be able to see the dress. We try to match the ribbon with that and make sure the flowers match. We know this is a special day.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.
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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
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Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
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I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
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Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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The mullein had finished blooming, and stood up out of the pastures like dusty candelabra. The flowers of Queen Anne's lace had curled up into birds' nests, and the bee balm was covered with little crown-shaped pods. In another month -- no, two, maybe -- would come the season of the skeletons, when all that was left of the weeds was their brittle architecture. But the time was not yet. The air was warm and bright, the grass was green, and the leaves, and the lazy monarch butterflies were everywhere.
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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
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Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
