Fragrant Quotes
120 quotes by 105 authors
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A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from…
— Tom Robbins
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If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead…
— Gregory Palamas
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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body,…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their…
— Charles Lamb
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In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious,…
— Peter Zumthor
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Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.
— Dave Barry
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Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet…
— Richard Ouzounian
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No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a…
— Rajneesh
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
— Alexander Pope
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The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly…
— Louise Wilder
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O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
— Henry Timrod
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Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments,…
— John Burroughs
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Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which…
— Stephen Bayley
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
— Ken Auletta
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The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
— Leonard Cohen
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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed…
— John Vianney
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Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why…
— William Dean Howells
Who Wrote These Fragrant Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 120 Fragrant Quotes, led by these top contributors: