Flowering Quotes

122 Flowering quotes by 92 unique authors

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct… — Lawrence Durrell
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders… — Joan Lindsay
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and… — Bill Vaughan
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. — Bill Vaughan
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,… — Black Elk
The flowering of love is meditation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. — Audre Lorde
When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. — Gwyneth Paltrow
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.… — Ayelet Waldman
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of… — E. O. Wilson
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almondâ€” surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo… — Louise GluÌˆck
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard… — George Orwell
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter… — Barbara Kingsolver
I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from… — Dorothy Parker

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