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Flower Quotes by Celia Thaxter
- He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to…
- As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent…
- To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
- Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.
- Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness…
- As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human…
- As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some…
- When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this…
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- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. — Jane Austen
- In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman
- True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac
- Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. — Franklin P. Adams
- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey
- I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore