Bud Quotes

• A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Flower, Waiting, World

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

  Rajneesh

  God, Letting Go, Flower

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• Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fades

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• A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

  Paulo Coelho

  Flower, Process, Stage

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.40, Booklassic

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• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Tests

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• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

  Christopher Fry

  Hysteria, One Day, Calm

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.20, Oberon Books

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• Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Spring, Garden, Springtime

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• Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Moments, Spares

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.115, Pearson Education

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• There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Summer, Flower

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• I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Dark, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Flower, May

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.34

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• Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Rose, Free Spirit, Rose Buds

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Writing, Giving

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• The bud of victory is always in the truth.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Presidential, Victory

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.

  Denise Levertov

  Inspirational, Fullness Of Life, Earth

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

  Jose Saramago

  Rose, Promise, Way

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 89), 2003.

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• I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

  Eddie Money

  Two, Stills, Bits

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• You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Roots, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

  James Hogg

  Sweet, Rose, Lilies

  James Hogg (1866). “The works of the Ettrick shepherd”, p.430

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• A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

  Dave Beard

  Lavender, Glory, Hummingbirds

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• All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Roots, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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