Flowers Quotes
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
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If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
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What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
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This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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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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The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.
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Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
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If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.
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It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.
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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
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Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.
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I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
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I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
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The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.
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The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.
