flower quotes

• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (Thomas Gray) [flower/waste]
• How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. (William Wordsworth) [flower/bloom/flower]
• The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. (Carl Ally) [flower//form/faith]
• Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. (Henry Ward Beecher) [death/flower]
• To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. (William Blake) [wild/flower]
• To create a little flower is the labor of ages. (William Blake) [flower]
• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. (Joseph Conrad) [flower/garden/mail]
• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. (Jean Giraudoux) [flower/poetry/reproduction/life]
• Generosity is the flower of justice. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [flower/]
• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. (Robert Herrick) [time/flower/willpower]
• The Amen of nature is always a flower. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [nature/flower]
• Life is the flower for which love is the honey. (Victor Hugo) [life/flower/love]
• Life is a flower of which love is the honey. (Victor Hugo) [life/flower/love]
• Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence. (Samuel Johnson) [solitude/flower/give/delight]
• Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. (Abraham Lincoln) [flower/flower]
• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. (Abraham Lincoln) [flower/flower]
• You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. (John Ruskin) [flower]
• Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. (William Shakespeare) [danger/flower]
• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. - (William Shakespeare) [beauty/flower/flower]
• Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage? (Henry David Thoreau) [flower]
• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. (William Wordsworth) [flower/shy]
• How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. (William Wordsworth) [flower/bloom/flower]
• To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. (William Wordsworth) [flower/give/thoughts/tears]
• That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. (William Wordsworth) [flower/willpower/find]
• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? (Naomi Campbell) [underwear/heat/flower]
• I'm like a flower that's finally opening. I was a closed rose but now the rose is blossoming and I can finally discover who I am. (LaToya Jackson) [flower]
• “Get out of the flower beds and into my king-size bed” (Eva Longoria) [flower]
• “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) [flower/war/pity/blood]
• “Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I also not have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiply like vermin.” (Adolf Hitler) [flower/youth/war/feeling]
• “Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.” (Sharon Tate) [flower/ugly/bird]
• “I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” (Willie Nelson) [think/people/flower/god]

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