I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights… — Irene Dunne Copy Share Image
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in… — Texas Bix Bender Copy Share Image
Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
“When that part of the woman meets with a man, all the flowers in the world suddenly bloom! All the birds of… — Kim Dong Hwa Copy Share Image
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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of snow that didn't amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
“He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
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Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“They smoked on the patio. The wind was warm. Snow had gone to slush in the street. Clouds shredded into flying ribbons.… — Ryan Blacketter Copy Share Image
Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works.… — Mary Morrissey Copy Share Image
“The first seven years of the Joshua tree's life, it's just a vertical stem. No branches," she told me while we were… — Karen M. McManus Copy Share Image
That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
