Flower Quotes - page 18

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting. (John Mortimer)
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. View quote
Phillips Brooks
O how I feel, just as I pluck the flower And stick it to my breast - words can't reveal; But there are souls that in this lovely hour Know all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel. View quote
John Clare
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. View quote
Marcelene Cox
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals. View quote
Mohsin Hamid
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character.... How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster. View quote
Penelope Lively
I turned to Thalia. ‘I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?' She sighed. ‘Fine. Let's go catch this jerk. View quote
Rick Riordan
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you. View quote
Robert Holden
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon. View quote
Cesar Aira
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer. (Sinclair B. Ferguson)
Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life's experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self. View quote
Debbie Ford
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers. View quote
James Hillman
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. View quote
John Piper
Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower. View quote
George Stigler
The large 'White Flower' [Georgia painted in 1929] with the golden heart is something I have to say about White – quite different from what White has been meaning to me. Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower – and what is my experience of the flower if it is not color. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it-love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn's leaves and catches them by surprise. View quote
Elizabeth Chandler
It's as if the world is full of honeybees and I'm the only flower" -Elena. View quote
L.J. Smith
So much I have learned: the blossom that fades away, its color unseen, is the flower in the heart of one who lives in this world. View quote
Ono no Komachi
In the garden the door is always open into the 'holy' - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death. (May Sarton)
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'. View quote
Kim Ki-duk
People think that painting is about color It's mostly composition It's composition that's the whole thing The classic image- Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image, one empty – the empty form goes all the way to heaven It is the classic form – lighter weight. View quote
Agnes Martin
Thought is a flower from other worlds, a tale that is torn in each written word. ...............I go outdoors to give rest to the soul's tired muscles. View quote
Juan Antonio Villacañas
O Brother! Not every sea hath pearls; not every branch will flower, nor will the nightingale sing thereon. Then, ere the nightingale of the mystic paradise repair to the garden of God, and the rays of the heavenly morning return to the Sun of Truth-make thou an effort, that haply in this dustheap of the mortal world thou mayest catch a fragrance from the everlasting garden, and live forever in the shadow of the peoples of this city. And when thou hast attained this highest station and come to this mightiest plane, then shalt thou gaze on the Beloved, and forget all else. View quote
Bahá'u'lláh