Flowers Quotes
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
Adah Isaacs Menken
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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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God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
Dustin Hoffman
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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.
Claude Monet
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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
Emily Dickinson
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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
Frederic Chopin
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
Edward George, Baron George
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
Gautama Buddha
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Nicholas Culpeper
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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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The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.
Anne Geddes
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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.
Will Carleton
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
Helen Keller
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You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.
Kiersten White
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
John Ruskin
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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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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
Elena Ferrante
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.
Gautama Buddha
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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
William Shakespeare