Quotes with flowers

Quotes 41 till 60 of 73.

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley 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.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Rutherford Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bayard Taylor Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Robert Bresson 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.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Anne Rice My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Remy de Gourmont 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.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Auguste Rodin The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings The earth laughs in flowers.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Louis de Bernieres The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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