Flower Quotes · Page 163

But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine:…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

— Heinrich Heine

If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.

— David Ignatow

Don't you just love my flower

— Cute_Lil_Angel

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

— William Blake

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew…

— Alice Sebold

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does…

— Gautama Buddha

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious." Just what I wanted to…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

— Marisa Silver

Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow…

— Walter Scott

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

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

— Scott Hastie

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

— William Wordsworth

They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

— Anne Sexton

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when…

— Alexander Pope

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,…

— Heinrich Heine

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,…

— Orison Swett Marden

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of…

— C.P. Cavafy

Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If…

— Anonymous

It does not mean that there will be no work if we turn life into a celebration. It is not that the…

— Rajneesh

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

— Ray Bradbury

In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars, In floating, curling sprays, The golden flower comes shining though the woods These February days;…

— Constance Fenimore Woolson

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

— Anne Rice