Expensive Quote by Maeve Binchy

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...

— Emily Dickinson

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you…

— Kyle Dunnigan

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

— John James Audubon

I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame.

— Steve Zahn

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable;…

— Charlotte Bronte

I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head…

— Mary Oliver

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the…

— Knut Hamsun

With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail,…

— Elizabeth Fry

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

— Myrtle Reed

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.

— Sylvia Plath