Flowers Quotes
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The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.
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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.
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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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Petunias are as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
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In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows.
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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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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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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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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
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Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
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He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
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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.
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
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God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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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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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.
