Orchids Quotes

41 quotes by 35 authors

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society. — Leatrice Eiseman
While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence… — Leatrice Eiseman
When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was… — Susan Orlean
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. — Marya Mannes
One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have… — Sarah Sutton
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good… — Rachel Cusk
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,… — Marcel Proust
Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely! — Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your… — Toni Morrison
If heâ€™d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, Iâ€™d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he… — Karen Marie Moning
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichÃ©d, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get… — Justina Chen
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.… — Scott Westerfeld
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the… — Jerry Spinelli
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. — Oscar Wilde
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra… — Tony Kushner
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. — Lynn Viehl
You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. Iâ€™m running out of vases. I… — Erin Morgenstern
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethovenâ€™s â€œNinth Symphonyâ€,… — Brennan Manning
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet. — Nirvana

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