Busy Quote by Toni Cade Bambara

I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on…

— Orison Swett Marden

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light,…

— James Thomas Fields

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make…

— George Stillman Hillard

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

— Iris Murdoch

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

— Sherry Turkle

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

— Rumi

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these…

— Mitch Albom

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

— Horace Mann

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

— Joseph Joubert

As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were…

— Celia Thaxter