Plastic Flowers Quotes:

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

- Gertrude Stein

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.

- Anthony de Mello

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.

- Henri Matisse

source: Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

topic: Positive, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Flower, Flowering

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

- Walter Hagen

source: The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Attitude, Keep Calm And Carry On, Hurrying

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

- Frederick Salomon Perls

topic: Flower, Rooms, Faces, Plastic Flowers, Empty Rooms

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

- Anne Ursu

topic: Nice, Flower, Plastic, Plastic Flowers

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Inspiring, Hope, Spring, May Flowers, Spring Day

Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening it is gone. Nobody can say when it will disappear, when the petals will start falling. Just a strong wind and it is no more, just a strong sun and it is no more. But the plastic flower will be there; come rain, come sun, come anything, the plastic flower will be there. In fact, plastic is the only permanent thing in the world.

- Rajneesh

topic: Marriage, Beautiful, Strong, Strong Winds, Permanent Things

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

- Rajneesh

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.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love, Inspirational, Uplifting, Inspiration Love, Love Poems

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Love, Dog, Flower, Starry Sky, Morning Sky

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

- Elliott Erwitt

topic: Flower, People, Landscape, Plastic Flowers

The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Flower, Entertainment, Plastic, Entertainment Business, Plastic Flowers

I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

- Bai Ling

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?

- Rajneesh

topic: Marriage, Flower, Want, Plastic Flowers

Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal. If you try to become a Buddha, you may look like Buddha, you may walk like him, you may talk like him, but you will miss. You will miss all that life was ready to deliver to you. Buddha happens only once.

- Rajneesh

topic: Motivational, Unique, Destiny, Will Miss You, Plastic Flowers

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

- Galway Kinnell

topic: Flower, Thinking, Glasses, Plastic Flowers, Eyesight

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Flower, Political, Born, Plastic Flowers

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

- Mercedes McCambridge

source: Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

topic: Funny, Witty, Flower, Dressing Rooms, Plastic Flowers

All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!

- Peter Cook

source: "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.

topic: Flower, Burgers, Frozen, Plastic Flowers, Noisy

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

- Lewis Thomas

topic: Flower, Sunshine, Science, Genetic Engineering, Human Cloning

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

- Ernest L. Boyer

source: Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

topic: Education, Children, Flower, Knicks, Bookshelves