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Quotes About Primrose

I am thinning you down for the Primrose ,' said Lymond, still reading. 'Have we missed a meal?' 'We have missed two meals,' said Danny Hislop with precision. 'And God knows how many drinks. I haven't been working at all well. Hislops need lubrication.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
~ Carl Sandburg
Out of the city, far away With Spring today! Where copse tufted with primrose Give me repose, Wood-sorrel and wild violet Soothe my soul's fret.
~ William Allingham
The days were lengthening. A wet primrose light lay over Wells Road. The lamps were like jewels, pale but piercingly bright. The air... fresh and mild.
~ Dorothy Whipple
She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.
~ E.M. Forster
Violet had a foolish, doll-like face and primrose colored hair in lifeless curls pinned all over her head like synthetic sausages. She opened her tiny wet mouth like a sea anemone and spoke.
~ Caroline Graham
An old memory that surfaces. A late primrose preserved between the pages. Strange bits of happiness, like the photo of Finnick and Annie's newborn son.
~ Suzanne Collins
It was Primrose Everdeen.
~ Suzanne Collins
It's iconic, it's Wembley. When I go running up Primrose Hill you can see the arch. It's a great thing and it's a proud spot for London.
~ George Groves
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
~ Oscar Wilde
Borrower's don't steal." "Except from human beings," said the boy. Arrietty burst out laughing; she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!
~ Unknown
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
~ Oliver Goldsmith