Daisies Quotes · Page 4

He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or…

— Jandy Nelson

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,…

— Alasdair Gray

If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will kill you.”…

— Julia Quinn

With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee…

— William Wordsworth

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human…

— Thomas Berry

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.…

— Elizabeth Goudge

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No what-might-have-beens. If God says not to worry about tomorrow, I would think the same applies to yesterday. There's enough trouble in…

— Liz Tolsma

When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated…

— William Henry Hudson

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

— Don Herold

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

— Lady Bird Johnson

“In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

— William Wordsworth

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

— Anne Sexton

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of…

— Christina Rossetti

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

— Francis Beaumont

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

— Jessica Simpson

And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm.

— Suzanne Collins

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.

— F.B. Meyer

And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies guard you from every…

— Suzanne Collins

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

— Robert Burns

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

— Jude Law

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly…

— Neal A. Maxwell

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up…

— Lewis Carroll

You're going to get yourself into a lot of trouble." "Why?" "Because of her right there. Do you know what Daisy would…

— Jessica Sorensen

I was a boy in the ads I did as a child. My sister was the girl, and I was the boy.…

— Rose McGowan

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What…

— Antonia Fraser

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck.…

— Anna Friel

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking…

— Augusten Burroughs

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's…

— Winona Ryder

Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated.…

— Lisa Kleypas

Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks…

— John Milton

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the…

— Edgar Quinet