Best Poppies Quotes
88 Poppies quotes by 66 unique authors
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What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy.…
— Robert Loveman
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Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.
— Michaela DePrince
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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
— Jonathan Swift
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
— Robert Burns
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In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed,…
— Mark Burnett
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I…
— Eddie Van Halen
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Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
— Jimmy Buffett
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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're…
— Peter York
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Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
— Thomas Hood
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Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls…
— Leigh Hunt
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And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
— William Alexander Percy
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
— Bayard Taylor
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Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other…
— Nikolai Gogol
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The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
— John Keats
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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted…
— John Keats
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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce…
— Annie Dillard
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I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child,…
— Tom Hiddleston
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The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
— Anne Lamott
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in…
— Walter Savage Landor
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing,…
— John McCrae
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The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven…
— Louise Glück
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These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might…
— John Steinbeck
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I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
— Eric Hobsbawm
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