Quotations
Quotes:
I've heard them lilting, at the ewe milking.
Lasses a'lilting, before dawn of day;
But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning;
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. (The Flowers of the Forest)
View quotes by Jane Elliott
I've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried. [on Cherie Blair]
View quotes by Tony Blair
Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.
View quotes by Barbara Cheney
I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
View quotes by Jennifer Aniston
Roses red and roses white
Plucked I for my love's delight.
She would none of all my posies--
Bade me gather her blue roses.
Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
View quotes by Rudyard Kipling
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
View quotes by Mother Teresa
It is not in fighting that my God delights but in causing the trees to grow, and in adorning the plains with grass and flowers. He loves not the proud warrior nor the hunter, but the lowly and the good
View quotes by Standish O'Grady
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
View quotes by Margery Allingham
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
But beauty faded has no second spring. (The First Pastoral)
View quotes by Ambrose Philips
Where have all the flowers gone? (Title of song, 1961)
View quotes by Pete Seeger
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
View quotes by Marlene Dietrich
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
View quotes by Mary Sarton
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
View quotes by John Gardner
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
View quotes by Orison Swett Marden
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
View quotes by Henri Matisse
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
View quotes by Edvard Munch
Proverbs:
March Winds And April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers
What Sunshine Is To Flowers, Smiles Are To Humanity
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