Marigolds Quotes

• It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

  Rajneesh

  Love, What Matters, Rose

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• Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

  John Keats

  Flower, Ardent, Rounds

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

  Jean Ingelow

  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.83

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• Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Vegetables, Hot, Herbs

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 103

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• As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Garden, Sake

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

  John Gay

  Fairs

  John Gay (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.40

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• Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.

  Richard Grossinger

  Light, Wings, Yellow

  Richard Grossinger (2011). “The Bardo of Waking Life”, p.87, North Atlantic Books

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• Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

  Libba Bray

  Boards, Cows

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• Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7584, BookCaps Study Guides

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• She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mother, Dog, Halloween

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.16, Macmillan

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• In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives.

  Diriye Osman

  Summer, Sweet, Night

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• The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Years, Balance, Golden

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Pages From An Old Volume Of Life”, p.162, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

  Adam Johnson

  Life, Flower, Rose

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.252, Random House

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• Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Running, Rocks, Young Friends

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• Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Smart, Garden, Punishment

  "Half Sick of Shadows". merryfates.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I'm excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it's been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I'm coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.

  Ali Larter

  Sweet, Hero, Character

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