Barren Quote by Waris Dirie

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up,…

— Warsan Shire

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are…

— Francis Bacon

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers,…

— John Burroughs

I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names…

— Franny Armstrong

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father's original name was Ahmed Ali Khan till he became a follower of a holy man Waris Pak and we became Warsis.

— Arshad Warsi

There's no meaning to a flower unless it blooms

— Ino

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks…

— William Wordsworth

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

— Arthur Cleveland Coxe

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers,…

— George Santayana

“Animals fight wars; flowers practice peace.”

— James Edwin Gunn