The Flower Quotes

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

Life is a garden forever in flower.

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the meadows of July; A fine night for murder Winging through the sky.

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.