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Flowers Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales
- Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
- O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to…
- When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to…
- The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole,…
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- 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
- 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