Cities Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Every flower blooms just as every flower dies, but it lives long enough to provide beauty in the world.

— LostInTears

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast…

— John Milton

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by…

— John Donne

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

— Anonymous

“When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet…

— William Shakespeare

Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed…

— Sharman Apt Russell

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

— Brendan Gill

Long after the last canons fire and the last bombs do BOOM the trees and the flowers will continue to bloom. à

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

— William Wordsworth