Flower Quotes - Page 38

• suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

  e. e. cummings

  Men, Life Is, Old Man

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.23, C.H.Beck

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• * if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Happiness, Stars

  12 Copy quote

• But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind her and held it in his hand. Her mother cut it off and hung it from a chandelier. She was Queen. Mazishta. Her hair was black and her handmaidens dressed it with pearls and silver pins. Her flesh was golden like the desert. Her flesh was pale like cream. Her eyes were blue. Brown.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Mother, Queens

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Struggle, Writing, Self

  9 Copy quote

• Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

  Christopher Pike

  Long, Sometimes, Staring

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Two, Three, Valleys

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady

  Shannon Hale

  Sweet, Morning, Hair

  4 Copy quote

• Memphis—it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.

  Libba Bray

  Brother, Giving, Bird

  4 Copy quote

• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Nature, Stars

  19 Copy quote

• All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Sleep, Dark, Dust

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Might, Saws

  4 Copy quote

• My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

  Edmond Rostand

  Weed, Garden, Soul

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1923). “CYRANO DE BERGERAC”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things we would be wise never to forget....first, forget not to be patient with yourself...second, forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice...third, forget not to be happy now...fourth, forget not the why of the gospel...fifth, forget not that the Lord loves you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Wise, Love You, Sacrifice

  18 Copy quote

• Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

  Harry Mulisch

  Law, Roots, Together

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

  Edna O'Brien

  Beautiful, Love Is, Sight

  32 Copy quote

• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Butterfly

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

  William Wilberforce

  School, Eye, Iron

  Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.256

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Apology, Giving, Heartfelt

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.148, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women’s domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

  Alice Munro

  Home, Eye, Wire

  Alice Munro (2002). “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mean, Smell, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Wall, Glasses

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.981, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Rain, Clouds

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Magic, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Devil, Care

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2967, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The school sent you flowers. I’m sure that totally makes up for the fact that they hired the psychotic, soul-stealing pedophile who murdered you in your own home.

  Rachel Vincent

  Home, School, Soul

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.100, Harlequin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source