"As I work among my flowers, I find……" — Celia Thaxter
"As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I."
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Celia Thaxter
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24 Quotes by Celia Thaxter
Celia Thaxter has 24 quotes on this site.
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When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being…
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He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good…
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As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a…
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Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
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This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do…
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One golden day redeems a weary year
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So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the…
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Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and…
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It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is…
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Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be…
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Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound.…
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Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to…
— Randolph Bourne
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us…
— Saint Augustine
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to…
— Richard Attenborough
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We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will…
— Laura Ingraham
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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and…
— Mary Frances Berry
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
— Alister E. McGrath
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Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism…
— Evelyn Underhill
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I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.
— Jan Potocki
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When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It…
— Pope Francis
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