Quotes and Sayings About Flower
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You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
-- A. D. Gordon -
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
-- A. E. HotchnerSource : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
-- A. E. Housman -
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Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
-- Abby May Alcott -
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
-- Aberjhani -
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
-- Aberjhani -
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!
-- Adolf Hitler -
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
-- Adrian Desmond -
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
-- Agnes DenesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
-- Ahmad Shamloo -
If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.
-- Ai Yazawa -
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We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
-- Akira KurosawaSource : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage
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Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.
-- Alamgir HashmiSource : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
-- Alan BennettSource : Alan Bennett (2010). “The Complete Talking Heads”, p.56, Macmillan
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
-- Alan Coren -
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
-- Alan Furst -
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
-- Alan Garner -
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
-- Alan Kay -
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
-- Alan Perlis -
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
-- Alan Watts -
My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
-- Albert Camus -
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.
-- Albert Camus -
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
-- Albert Camus