Lilies Quotes - Page 6

• You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it.

  Trevor Hall

  Weed, Roots, Water

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• My best friend is Lily Aldridge. Her daughter's my godchild.

  Erin Heatherton

  Daughter, My Best Friend

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• Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Rose, Bird

  Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.34, Northwestern University Press

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• I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Love Is, Fierce, Influence

  "Bridgit Mendler On ‘Good Luck Charlie,’ Music, And The Craziest Thing A Fan Has Asked Her". Interview with Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Wise, Time, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.94, Library of America

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

  Charlaine Harris

  Wall, White, Alligators

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

  Eliza Coupe

  Hbo, Gone, Sopranos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mother, Garden, Secret

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Song, Stars, Heart

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• In my garden
  the winds have beaten
  the ripe lilies;
  in my garden, the salt
  has wilted the first flakes
  of young narcissus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Loss, Garden, Wind

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

  Robert Browning

  Islands, Sea, Isle

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, Sky, White

  Cornelia Funke (2010). “Reckless”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

  John Keats

  Rose, Dew, Fever

  'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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• As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

  Solomon

  Love, Daughter, Son

  King Solomon, “The Song Of Songs”

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• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Flower, Eagles

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.18, Souvenir Press

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• He goes along just as a water lily
  Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
  Unweighed down by passion or intensity
  Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
  And he finds a home in me
  For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Passion, Home

  Song: Pale September, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• Lily slumped, putting her shaking hands on his shoulders. "But you will, won't you?" Pansy's voice broke into a sob. "Yes, Pan," Galen said quietly. "I don't like that," Pansy said. Galen stood and put his arms around the fine-boned girl, while Rose continued to comfort Lily. Oliver looked away. It was such a private moment; he hated to intrude on it. Galen was beloved by all of the sisters, but the love between him and Rose was so clear and shining that it hurt to look at them, spending their last hours together caring for the other girls.

  Jessica Day George

  Girl, Hurt, Caring

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• The indignity of it!-
  With everything blooming above me,
  Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
  Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
  Me down in the fetor of weeds,
  Crawling on all fours,
  Alive, in a slippery grave.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Rose, Lovely

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.71, Anchor

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• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

  Wendell Berry

  Distance, Wine, Air

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• The wild Bee reels from bough to bough
  With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
  Now in a lily cup, and now
  Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
  In his wandering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Coats, Bells

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.849, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh, I would while away the hours, Wanking in the flowers, my heart all full of song, I'd be gliding all the lilies as I waved about my willie, If I only had a schlong.

  Christopher Moore

  Song, Flower, Heart

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• The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues and tears the wolves, or a turtledove hunts the hawks and eagles, or a chaste and modest virgin fights and scratches like whores and harlots.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Fighting, Eagles

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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