Lily Quotes

Lily Quote of the day

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it from the rest of the junk. I know how to do both.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.

As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.

I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.

Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.

I'll teach you, " Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders."Did your mother teach you?" he asked."I don't have a mother, " she said. "Like you."For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.

... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.

I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

People say I'm not much of a girl either, " Tiger Lily said.She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid, " She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

I dare us to give up – maybe we’ll reach nirvana by the time we’re sixty.

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

Here we go, ” Phoenix said, turning back to Nora. “Try not to let this room scare you.

You'll do fine.""What, you're psychic now?""Didn't you know?" he asks seriously. "Must be an aftereffect of the bond.

I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface. Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace.

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a new one.

To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.

My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere I go.

Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.

To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.

Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.

To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond!

Every decision you make in life will stem from one of two options: love or fear. Choose love.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

Everyone will think I'm ugly."Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

It made you happy...

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

I see you as Lily. I see you for who you are, even though you don't.” -Julian