True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
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 ~
I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
~By Anna Neagle ~
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
~By George Balanchine ~
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
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 ~
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
~By John Foxe ~
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 ~
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 ~
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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 the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
~By Gerald Massey ~
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 ~
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
~By Robert Fortune ~
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
~By Bernard Malamud ~
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~By A. A. Milne ~
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
~By Ken Hill ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
~By Augustus Hare ~
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 ~
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
~By Walter de La Mare ~
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~By Henri Matisse ~
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
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 ~
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
~By Lope de Vega ~
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
~By Thomas Moore ~
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
~By Christopher Smart ~
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"
~By Delta Burke ~
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 ~
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~By Isaac Watts ~
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
~By Austin Dobson ~
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 ~
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
~By Bert Williams ~
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
~By Beau Bridges ~
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 ~
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
~By Conor Oberst ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
I like perfume and flowers.
~By Donatella Versace ~
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
~By Anne Rice ~
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
~By Thomas Tusser ~
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~By Corita Kent ~
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
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 ~
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 ~
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~By Edna Ferber ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~By Ambrose Philips ~
Earth laughs in flowers.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
~By Ursula Andress ~
At my age flowers scare me.
~By George Burns ~
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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 are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
~By John Ruskin ~
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~By Doug Larson ~
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
~By Mao Zedong ~
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 ~
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