Quotes About Flowers
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
~ Teresa of Avila
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And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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I need to hold on to the faded love 'cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers
~ Munia Khan
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They'll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an "instinctive" hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Crecerán con lo que los psicólogos solían llamar un odio instintivo hacia los libros y las flores. Reflejos condicionados definitivamente. Estarán a salvo de los libros y de la botánica para toda su vida. -El director se volvió hacia las enfermeras-. Llévenselos
~ Aldous Huxley
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CH3C6H2(NO2)3 + Hg(CNO)2 = ¿a qué? Un enorme agujero en el suelo, un montón de ruinas, algunos trozos de carne y de mucus, un pie, con la bota puesta todavía, que vuela por los aires y aterriza, ¡plas! entre los geranios, los geranios rojos... ¡Qué espléndia floración, aquel verano!
~ Aldous Huxley
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Plato seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming and identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of the Idea. He could never, poor fellow, have seen a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance with which they were charged; could never have perceived that what rose and iris and carnation so intensely signified was nothing more, and nothing less, than what they were.
~ Aldous Huxley
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The effects of the mescalin were already on the decline: but the flowers in the gardens still trembled on the brink of being supernatural, the pepper trees and carobs along the side streets still manifestly belonged to some sacred grove. Eden alternated with Dodona. Yggdrasil with the mystic Rose.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
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The physical world—the world of stone and brick—is indifferent to our suffering, to our dramas, she thought. Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
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Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?' I asked. 'You cannot take these flowers,' said Zoran. 'They belong to the government.
~ Doug MacLeod
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Her dress exploded, the flowers scattered in the air, the colours popped up high like fireworks in a celebration, but: no sound could be heard, no sound...
~ Dunya Mikhail
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Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!
~ Soseki Natsume
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Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
~ Claude Simon
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Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.
~ Jim Gaffigan
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The only thing Birdie was ever interested in was home. There was nothing Birdie loved more than to curl up in her window seat and watch the orchard. She knew what animals burrowed where, and what flowers bloomed when, and what trees produced the best fruit. She listened to the farm's rhythms through the screen like the beat of the heart of someone she loved.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
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The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.
~ Ann Zwinger
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But then he touched the flowers With the dry tips of his fingers. "Tell me how men kiss you. Tell me how you kiss.
~ Anna Akhmatova
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With pride your spirit is darkened For this you won't know the world at all. You say that this faith is a dream And mirage is this capital. You say that my country is sinful, Your country is godless, I scream. May the guilt still lie upon us -- We can correct and redeem. Around you are water and flowers Why seek a beggar and sinner, my dear? I know that you're sick very badly: You seek death and the end you fear.
~ Anna Akhmatova
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A thousand pretty ways we'll find To mock old Winter's starving reign; We'll bid the violets spring again, Bid rich poetic roses blow, Peeping agove his heaps of snow; We'll dress his withered cheeks in flowers, And on his smooth bald head Fantastic garlands bind.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime, Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.
~ Anne Bradstreet
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Tulips, we are told, were the center of life for the bloemisten, as those who grew and traded in tulips were sometimes known.
~ Anne Goldgar
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L'Amoral took the time not only to discuss the flower with him, but to show him others, such as a pan porcin, "white as snow," which had been sent to him from Italy, and a very beautiful double heparica of a "celestial blue.
~ Anne Goldgar
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double white Narcissus,
~ Anne Goldgar
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