Quotes with flowers

  • My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
  • O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
  • January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
  • The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
  • Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
  • Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
  • There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
  • A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
  • Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Earth laughs in flowers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Luther Burbank Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Joseph Addison What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
     
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  • Bob Dylan And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers...
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Vernon Howard By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • Marcelene Cox Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Annie Dillard Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Theodore Roethke Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
    Theodore Roethke
    American poet (1908 - 1963)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Esteem to virtue is like a cherishing air to plants and flowers, which maketh them blow and prosper.
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    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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