Sunflower quotes
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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
-- Charles Jencks -
From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.
-- Daniel Quinn -
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
-- Jean Paul -
Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
-- Jo Walton -
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Sunflowers are like people to me.
-- Joan Mitchell -
Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
-- Joe Hill -
Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there...
-- Loren Eiseley -
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The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.
-- Martin Firrell -
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...
-- Mary Oliver -
Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,
-- Miranda Kerr -
There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.
-- Patricia A. McKillip -
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Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
Restless sunflower; cease to move.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color. Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life.
-- Quentin L. Cook -
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
-- Richard Brautigan -
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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
-- Richard Rohr -
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.
-- Robert Farrar Capon -
Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?
-- Simone Elkeles -
London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
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I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
-- Takeshi Kitano -
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
-- Thomas Bulfinch -
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
-- Thornton Wilder -
Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
-- Vera Nazarian -
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I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?
-- Michael Moss -
But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.
-- Unknown
