quotes about Vases
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
-- Amy Hempel -
Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.
-- Andrej PejicSource : "Andrej Pejic On Lea T.: ‘I Think I Cover More Fields’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.
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We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.
-- Bailey WhiteSource : Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.22, Da Capo Press
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You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
-- Christine McVie -
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-- Derek WalcottSource : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan
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She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
-- Derek Walcott -
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
-- Francois Rabelais -
Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.
-- Guity NovinSource : Setareh Cinema, Volume 4, 1973.
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It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
-- Horace -
Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.
-- Marilyn Manson -
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
-- Mary Renault -
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....
-- Pablo Neruda -
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
-- Raymond Chandler -
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
-- Thomas MooreSource : 'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'
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Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.
-- Tibor Fischer -
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson -
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
-- Walter Savage Landor