Blossoming Quote by Marcel Proust

“Bloom where planted”

— Karin Boutall

“... was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.”

— Henry James

“It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what…

— Charles Dickens

“My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old," he said. "You are in what I would call the very prime…

— Helen Simonson

“A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that of fruit…

— Robert Walser

“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom. —ANAÏS NIN”

— Mark Nepo

“Why harvest before the fruits gets ripe?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick…

— Yann Martel

“Lo, and I have discovered how soft bloom turns to green fruit, which turns to sweet fruit. Lo, and I have discovered all winds…

— Mary Oliver

“what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!”

— Thoreau Henry David

“On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the…

— Matthew Pearl

“Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their Creator...”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne