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Quotes About Flowers

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
~ David Nicholls
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.
~ David Nicholls
Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?
~ David Nicholls
I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]
~ Dawn Lundy Martin
The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at
~ Dean Cavanagh
Demonic Possession Is 9/10 of the Law" What's in cryostasis should stay in cryostasis. Do not core-sample the frozen alien. If the landlord tells you not to hang a mirror in that room, do not hang a mirror in that room. Do not jump off the train in the Carpathians to investigate a castle ruin. A stake through the heart is only half of it. All flowers eat meat. Put no faith in a sequel. The ultimate monster is always the self.
~ Dean Young
May the flowers of spring bring beauty and joy to your world everyday.
~ Debasish Mridha
A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.
~ Debasish Mridha
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
~ Megan Hart, Tear You Apart
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
~ Gerald Massey
Though it was at my heart's bidding that I chose the universe wherein I delight, I have at least the power of finding in it the many meanings I wish to find: there is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
~ Jean Genet
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears. Full-lipped flowers Bitten by the sun Bleeding rain Dripping rain like golden honey— And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.
~ Jean Toomer
Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . . Full-lipped flowers Bitten by the sun Bleeding rain Dripping rain like golden honey— And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.
~ Jean Toomer
Lavender, at one snuff party, said she dreamed of growing flowers that soared to the sky, titan delphiniums, for if her mother was "up there," in the place called heaven, those tall blue blooming spires might form a ladder, allowing her mother to step down for a visit to earth.
~ Jeanette Lynes
All was at peace while Batty picked flowers and hummed a song about kangaroos.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
chaque jour à mon âme tu ajoutes une flamme des fleurs à ma corbeille un rai à mon soleil
~ Jean-Robert Léonidas
The labour of digging and watering, the anxious zeal with which I pounced on weeds, the poring over gardening books, the plans made as I sat on the little seat in the middle gazing admiringly and with the eye of faith on the trim surface so soon to be gemmed with a thousand flowers, the reckless expenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of my position in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher, all, all had been in vain.
~ Elisabeth Von Arnim
The sun was shining, and there, right there on the side of the road, was a flower stand, a homemade wooden table covered with painted tins of lupine and cream-colored roses. For a few minutes on that sun-drenched road, I believed that God might be working her magic.
~ Elizabeth Benedict
In Nina Kimbereley's garden the scabiosa flowers were dark as garnet brooches; the nicotiana a veil of tossing crimson stars. Nothing was usual, or a dull color. All was exceptional, designed to be exceptional since it had been planned as the background for a beauty by the beauty.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Tis so beautiful—flowers every day of the year. You can always smell them in the air, even out to sea.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
THe church is full of flowers-yellow roses, lilies, blue hydrangeas spilling forth-and it is on these that Charlie trains his gaze and looks for his mother, who is nowhere to be found. Not even her ashes are in the church, and no coffin, but this is less hard to comprehend than the fact that she is not herself there, a thin old bird, an egret maybe, standing on one leg, head bobbing, long neck swiveling. Contradicting, adding and subtracting. poking fun. Peering out.
~ Elizabeth Graver
Lady Baskerville paced up and down wringing her hands. She required only an armful of weedy flowers to make a somewhat mature Ophelia.
~ Elizabeth Peters
the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps -- ...
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
In April, you know, it's simply a mass of flowers. And then there's the sea. You must wear white. You'll fit in very well. There are several portraits of you there.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim