Plucked Quotes

76 quotes by 67 authors

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. — George Santayana
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. — Ellen Key
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is… — Leonard Read
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to… — Tayeb Salih
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from… — Robert P. Crease
That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to… — Ice T
Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a… — Mitch Hedberg
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root… — Gautama Buddha
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,… — Charles Bukowski
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach… — Og Mandino
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of… — Alexandra Fuller
The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'. — Cyprian
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree. — William Shakespeare
I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get… — Dolly Parton
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own. — C.S. Lewis
It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't… — Lily Collins
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald… — James Russell Lowell
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey

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