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Quotes About Bloom

I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.
~ Ryokan
The ochre-yellow linoleum floor hasn't been scrubbed for some time; splotches of dirt bloom on it like grey pressed flowers.
~ Margaret Atwood
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. He
~ Margaret Atwood
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
~ Richard Selzer
Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.
~ Pope Francis
This was mainly a brown country, cluttered with dead leaves from the year before, but the oaks had tasseled and the redbud limbs were like flames in the wind. Fruit trees in cabin yards, peach and pear and occasional quince, were sheathed with bloom, white and pink, twinkling against broken fields and random cuts of new grass washed clean by the rain.
~ Shelby Foote
She opened the tin to show Candace the dark red strands, a fortune in her palm, dearer than this much caviar, this many shaved truffles; it was for spices like this that Columbus had set out in his ship. "Each strand is handpicked from the center of a crocus flower that blooms two weeks of the year.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
A flower gives joy only for a day. Witnessing it bloom into one is magic.
~ Ashima
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
~ Amy Bloom
Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass.
~ George Eliot
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
~ Berkeley Breathed
The chief virtue of Bloom's Taxonomy was its simplicity: six categories, not sixty.
~ Sam Wineburg
That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
~ William Wordsworth
Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.
~ Marie de France
When did she plant the roses. In full magnificent bloom now, the red and the white. A fragrance to make you go, Aaah. I think how much they must have pleased her, year after year, and made her proud. And it's not the thought that she must miss them, but that she's no longer capable of missing them, that makes me sad.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?
~ Emily Bronte
The beauty of it, to him, was that the routine was never the same. Bud break never occurred on the same date two years in a row. Waiting for it, watching for it, feeling the excitement when the vines suddenly burst into the palest of pale greens was … incredible. Same the critical few days when the buds burst into bloom.
~ Barbara Delinsky
And faith will take her holy flight, To realms beyond the tomb; They will not madly mourn the blight, Who knows how frail the bloom.
~ bayly thomas haynes ii
It is soon to be spring The Christmas toys barely played with I have a glass soldier whose head can turn The epaulettes interchangeable Soon flowers will bloom Lawrence from the garden shed will give us each a cup of seeds I am to wait I said
~ George Saunders
When the sun rises and shines, Not all the lotus buds in the lakes and ponds bloom, Only those that are ready, do. The rest have to bide their time, But all are destined to bloom, All have to fulfill that destiny. There is no need to despair.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
When it's time for the flowers to bloom, they'll bloom.When it's time for spring to come, it'll come.
~ Atsushi
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
~ Virginia Woolf
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
~ Arthur Golden