Artificial Flowers Quotes

• Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

  John Updike

  Flower, Giving, Natural

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.207, Random House

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• Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

  David Parnas

  Flower, Relation, Artificial Intelligence

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• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

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• Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Love, Beautiful, Art

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• Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

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• There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

  Charles Comiskey

  Enjoy

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• I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

  Jorge Amado

  Believe, Flower, Discovery

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• For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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