Bud Quotes

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes."

A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe

Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job.

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.

You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.