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Flowers Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads…
- Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.
- Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.
- A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the…
- They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.
- And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!
- Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
- The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the…
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- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- 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
- The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the… — Joseph Addison
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham
- Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
- A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. — Ruth Brown
- Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages,… — Sandra Bullock