Flowers Quotes
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Victor Hugo
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Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
Gautama Buddha
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows.
Barbara Wood
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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
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
Alexandre Dumas
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In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
Alda Merini
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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.
Richard Le Gallienne
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
Helen Keller
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.
Brian Andreas
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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
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
Abby May Alcott
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He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
William Shakespeare
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
Carlos Santana Santana
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So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.
Cicely Mary Barker
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo
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People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
Red Skelton
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Petunias are as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.
Eleanor Perenyi
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God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
Dustin Hoffman
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
George Bernard Shaw
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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus