I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me putting on a flowery shirt and a fancy tie is like decorative toilet paper. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There now,” she said to the flowers in an encouraging tone, “you have food and air. You’ll be very happy and pretty… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. — George Peele Copy Share Image
Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Flowers reconnect us to our own beautiful and unique essence as human beings. They wake up our positive qualities so that we… — Katie Hess Copy Share Image
On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“between the flowers and fruit bowls, and sometimes it feels like a game of musical chairs to seat everyone for meals. It… — Louise Westerhout Copy Share Image
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“Was it really that easy to win a woman’s heart with a flower? Or was it just thinking about it enough?” — Tunahan Akgün Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“But then he touched the flowers With the dry tips of his fingers. "Tell me how men kiss you. Tell me how… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Your mind is a garden,your thoughts are the seeds ,you can grow flowers or you can grow weeds,make your decision wisely. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The color white is a blank canvas, just waiting to be written on. Compared to other more stimulating colors it is a… — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
“And perhaps it is not too beautiful a thing to believe in this redeemed world, that, as the babe turns to his… — Charlotte M. Mason Copy Share Image
The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
