“Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.” — Shakieb Orgunwall Copy Share Image
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“She forced herself to stroll casually and appraise her plants. The wisteria was shedding its final leaves, the jasmine had long lost… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom. — James Wright Copy Share Image
“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Roses are red violets are blue, God made me pretty, what happened to you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Just like a butterfly, I had sprung from my cocoon for the first time. For my risk, I was rewarded with Jacob… — Laura Bailey Copy Share Image
Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in… — Ernest Rhys Copy Share Image
“He stalked up behind her to clench her hips, and she stilled. In a breathy voice, she asked, "You're going to make… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny.… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I begin to sing of Demeter, the holy goddess with the beautiful hair. And her daughter [Persephone] too. The one with the… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Then one day he sent her a single long-stemmed rose with the famous Hfez of Shrz poem that you probably know.” She… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“had much luck, and she was down to the last one: a pale-green silk dress with a vine of tiny embroidered pink… — Julia London Copy Share Image
