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Quotes About Flowers

and elegant women who filled the air with perfume and colour like the flowers in front of the Tuileries Palace" (pg. 85)
~ Graham Robb
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~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Darkness gives way to morning's sunrise, Winter ends, there are flowers, birds fly. Honour the goddess, remember the gods. We are children of earth and sky.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Even the birds above the lake Are singing of my love, And even the flowers along the shore Are growing for her sake.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
But dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
There's music along the river For Love wanders there, Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair.
~ James Joyce
I love flowers, I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses.
~ James Joyce
he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th
~ James Joyce
often she wondered why you couldn't eat something poetical like violets or roses
~ James Joyce
You know what death smells like? Fish blood that someone has buried in a garden of night-blooming flowers. Or a field mortuary during the monsoon season in a tropical country right after the power generators have failed. Or the buckets that the sugar-worker whores used to pour into the rain ditches behind their cribs on Sunday morning. If that odor comes to you on the wind or in your sleep, you tend to take special notice of your next sunrise.
~ James Lee Burke
I stood under the portico of the main house and rang the chimes. The day had already turned warm, but it was cool in the shade and the air smelled of damp brick and four-o'clock flowers and the mint that grew under the water faucets
~ James Lee Burke
I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.
~ Ruth Bernhard
The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
~ Said Nursi
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
~ Sue Townsend
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?
~ Rita Rudner
I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.
~ Tomonobu Itagaki
There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
~ Elizabeth Aston
Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I get chills when I think that there's a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that.
~ George Pelecanos
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
~ Hilarie Burton
I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
I showed her my cubicle of commercial artistry, and drew her attention to my latest project. "Oh, that's lovely," she said when I pointed out the drawing of a nymph with flowers in her freshly shampooed hair. "That's really nice." That "nice" remark almost spoiled my day.
~ Thomas Ligotti
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
~ Thomas Moore
beautiful in St Michael's, had been newly cleaned and filled with vases of fresh flowers. (Professor Dexter's bedder was more than
~ Tilly Bagshawe