The Flower Quotes

Hillary Clinton attacked those same women [ Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky] and attacked them viciously.

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms

Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Communism is the flower of idleness.

It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.

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

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.

A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

I am a morning person...I love waking up, walking & reveling In the beauty of all the flowers and trees....while chugging a 5th of vodka!!! It could happen.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn; Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes. The orioles sing and the flowers smile - Whose then, after all, is the Spring?

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.