“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Orchids are one of the few things in the world that can live forever.” — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I do love real orchids. It only takes me like 2 months to kill those though. — Jill Zarin Copy Share Image
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The men had gnawed through the daisy trees until, wild-eyed and yelling, they broke in two and hit the ground. In the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones... basically… — Lisa Jey Davis Copy Share Image
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I… — Magdi Yacoub Copy Share Image
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself,… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“If all of this makes orchids seem smart—well, they do seem smart. There is something clever and un-plantlike about their determination to… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“I had come to love the space, and I could see why Lady Anna had too. The orchids were positively glorious. She'd… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair;… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“I took a cautious step inside, marveling at the sight before me. A vast conservatory awaited, or what 'once' was a conservatory.… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant. — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
![“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of…” quote by Jürgen Habermas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a33/jurgen-habermas-12339_atheism_j-rgen-habermas-obituary-to-friend-and-p_673632.jpg)
