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Quotes About Blossoms

He's Nola's blossoms, and he's ready.
~ Elizabeth Berg
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 company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life
~ Alison Croggon
Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
~ Alison Croggon
The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden to scarlet and deep pink on tiers below. At the bottom, in the center of the rosy congregation, the palest apricots and ivories perfumed the air.
~ Allegra Goodman
a vase full of flowers: dark red and pale pink in a cloud of baby's breath.
~ Kim Edwards
And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.
~ Knut Hamsun
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.
~ Joseph Goebbels
larkspur and lupine, foxglove and Indian paintbrush.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
~ Yoshida Kenko
Fate is but a dying wish... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.
~ Youka Nitta
On the spur of the moment she decided to go and view the blossoms by herself in the dark night. It was a strange decision for a timid and unadventurous young woman, but then she was in a strange state of mind and she dreaded the return home. That evening all sorts of unsettling fancies had burst open in her mind. ("Swaddling Clothes")
~ Yukio Mishima
Plumes of white, pink, and purple blossoms offset the one hundred shades of green our little city is known for this time of year: lime, celery, and avocado, butter lettuce and kale, Granny Smith apple and broccoli and sage.
~ Jennie Shortridge
You have seen flowers at morning satisfied with the dew, and those same sweet flowers at noon with their heads bowed in anguish before the mighty sun; think you these thirsty blossoms will now need nought but— dew ? No, they will cry for sunlight, and pine for the burning noon, tho' it scorches them, scathes them...
~ Emily Dickinson
roses and all kinds
~ Enid Blyton
A light breeze caught the scent of roses and ruffled tall calma bushes with their big red or white blossoms.
~ Robert Jordan
up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate "June bells," those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year's blossoms. Gossamers glimmered like threads of silver among the trees and the fir boughs and tassels seemed to utter friendly speech.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Wilder wrote, 'The roses scented the wind, and along the road the fresh blossoms, with their new petals and golden centers, looked up like little faces.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods. Cooling trade winds prevail all summer, bringing what the old Hawaiians called makani 'olu' 'olu--- fair wind.
~ Alan Brennert
Why, Aza Chorn is dead. Just dead. About his monument, the ghosts parade. The zephyrs shriek and howl and tear apart the clouds, rail uselessly at death and in frustration snatch up blossoms shaped like human lips, and fling them like blood-red confetti from Olympus to those mortal pastures far below, a rain of angry kisses showering down upon those tiny, distant lives...
~ Alan Moore
To live at all is to share a world with cagey magic, skeptical magic, asshole magic. But, honestly, the trees must belong to something; the blossoms that tongue each groove between buildings, the water and the stone and the serious man-made steel railings all must belong. This major artery where blood and starlight pump along the tracks, where banks and malls and office towers shudder and gestate in the concrete like baobab trees.
~ Jes Battis
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
~ Jessica Stern
It was made from the black lotus, whose blossoms wave in the lost jungles of Khitai, where only the yellow-skulled priests of Yun dwell. Those blossoms strike dead any who smell of them.
~ Robert E. Howard