Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
source: Title of story (written 1930)
topic: Flower, Literature, Plastic Flowers, Faded

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
source: Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.101, Image
topic: Flower, Looks, Alive, Plastic Flowers

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
source: Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller
topic: Positive, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Flower, Flowering

source: The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)
topic: Inspirational, Life, Attitude, Keep Calm And Carry On, Hurrying
topic: Flower, Rooms, Faces, Plastic Flowers, Empty Rooms
She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.
topic: Nice, Flower, Plastic, Plastic Flowers
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
topic: Inspiring, Hope, Spring, May Flowers, Spring Day
topic: Marriage, Beautiful, Strong, Strong Winds, Permanent Things
topic: Real, Flower, Heart, Plastic Flowers
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
topic: Love, Inspirational, Uplifting, Inspiration Love, Love Poems
topic: Love, Dog, Flower, Starry Sky, Morning Sky
I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.
topic: Flower, People, Landscape, Plastic Flowers
The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.
topic: Flower, Entertainment, Plastic, Entertainment Business, Plastic Flowers
source: Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. May 8, 2009.
topic: Plastic Flowers
Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?
topic: Marriage, Flower, Want, Plastic Flowers
topic: Motivational, Unique, Destiny, Will Miss You, Plastic Flowers
topic: Flower, Thinking, Glasses, Plastic Flowers, Eyesight
topic: Flower, Political, Born, Plastic Flowers
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room
source: Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
topic: Funny, Witty, Flower, Dressing Rooms, Plastic Flowers
source: "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.
topic: Flower, Burgers, Frozen, Plastic Flowers, Noisy
topic: Flower, Sunshine, Science, Genetic Engineering, Human Cloning
source: Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
topic: Education, Children, Flower, Knicks, Bookshelves