I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
~By Ray Davies ~
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
~By Vic Morrow ~
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
~By Walter Hagen ~
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
~By Bette Davis ~
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~By Martin Luther ~
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
~By Austin Dobson ~
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~By Chanakya ~
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~By Corita Kent ~
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
~By Lope de Vega ~
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~By May Sarton ~
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
~By Ethel Waters ~
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~By Ambrose Philips ~
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
~By C. Northcote Parkinson ~
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
~By Bernard Malamud ~
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Flowers are happy things.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
~By Andrew Marvell ~
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
~By Al Purdy ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
~By Lena Horne ~
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
~By Robert Bresson ~
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
~By Henry Williamson ~
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~By Henri Matisse ~
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
~By Lincoln Steffens ~
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
~By Chuck Jones ~
I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~By Beverley Nichols ~
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~By Isaac Watts ~
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
~By Francis Cabot Lowell ~
To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
~By Ken Hill ~
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"
~By Delta Burke ~
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~By Edna Ferber ~
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
~By Andres Segovia ~
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
~By Christopher Smart ~
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
~By Ruth Brown ~
I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
~By Gerald Massey ~
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
~By Thomas Tusser ~
I like perfume and flowers.
~By Donatella Versace ~
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
~By Brian Clough ~
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~By Grantland Rice ~
I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
~By Soundarya ~
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
~By Augustus Hare ~
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
~By Edward Abbey ~
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
~By Craig Johnston ~
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~By Doug Larson ~
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~By Matsuo Basho ~
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
~By Letitia Landon ~
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
~By Ringo Starr ~
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
~By Robert Fortune ~
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
~By Chubby Checker ~
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
~By James Allen ~
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.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
~By Ursula Andress ~
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
~By Helen Keller ~
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
~By Jean Paul ~
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
~By George Balanchine ~
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
~By Richard Blackmore ~
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