Artificial Flowers Quotes:

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

- John Updike

source: John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.207, Random House

topic: Flower, Giving, Natural, Artificial Flowers

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

- David Parnas

topic: Flower, Relation, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Flowers

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Beauty, Flower, Sunshine, Physical Beauty, Definition Of Beauty

Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

- C.P. Cavafy

topic: Love, Beautiful, Art, Flower Love, Porcelain

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Flower, Artificial Flowers

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

- Charles Comiskey

topic: Enjoy, Artificial Flowers

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

- Jorge Amado

topic: Believe, Flower, Discovery, Artificial Flowers

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

- Stephanie Coontz

topic: Girl, Daughter, Mother, Middle Class Family, Black Girl