"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses." — Ovid

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• To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. — Jane Austen
• In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,… — Diane Ackerman
• True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have… — Honore de Balzac
• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked… — Honore de Balzac
• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its… — Honore de Balzac
• Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. — Franklin P. Adams
• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!… — Edward Abbey
• I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was… — Drew Barrymore

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