Bud Quotes · Page 6

Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud…

— William Blake

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

— Anonymous

I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower: Then when…

— Christina Rossetti

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

— William Shakespeare

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty…

— Omar Khayyam

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

— Eddie Money

In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that.…

— Bill Orcutt

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love…

— Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also…

— Clark Blaise

Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary) Yeah, but given his reaction to the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Jose Saramago

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea…

— Emily Dickinson

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

— Benjamin Harrison

Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and…

— David Gordon Green

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.…

— William Shakespeare

When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…

— Fritjof Capra

You know, bud, I don’t know you from Adam, but that’s my baby sister you’re hanging on to. So I’m thinking the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why did the warrior cross the road? [Koldo] That’s easy. To kill the guy on the other side. [Nicola] A bud of…

— Gena Showalter

Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all…

— Bill Murray

I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your…

— William Faulkner

All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey