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186 Lilies quotes by 138 unique authors

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. — Matthew McConaughey
C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be… — John Muir
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body… — John Muir
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert.… — John Muir
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by… — Bayard Taylor
Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises. — William Wordsworth
Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put… — William Wordsworth
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.… — Anne Lamott
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. — John Ruskin
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,… — Jerry Saltz
Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability… — Jerry Saltz
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower… — Carlos Santana
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone… — Sylvester Stallone
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor… — Charles Stanley
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. — William Carlos Williams
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to… — Sue Monk Kidd
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a… — Gaston Leroux
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or… — Daniel Quinn
When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell… — Sue Monk Kidd

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