I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know...
Eliza DushkuAt my age flowers scare me
George BurnsFlowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita KentThere are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri MatisseWhere have all the flowers gone? (Title of song, 1961)
Pete SeegerFlowers are happy things.
P G WodehouseGardening, 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.
Barbara Cheney Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy BenthamMuch 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.
John GardnerI'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)
Jane ElliottA wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie CantorHow can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother TeresaI've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried. [on Cherie Blair]
Tony BlairI'm overwhelmed by all the flowers people sent me. [after being attacked]
John SavidentIt 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
Standish O'GradyThe countryside is incredibly boring. There's lots of shagging, lots of murders, lots of sarcasm, lots of treachery, and lots of bad cooking, but it's all hidden. You've got all the space and the flowers, but it's dull!
Tom BakerThroughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
Emma StansfieldFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher 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.
Jennifer AnistonI have seen flowers come out in stony places,
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the Gold Cup won by the worst horse at the races.
John MasefieldForests, 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.
Orison Swett MardenValues such as holding a door open for a woman, helping a mother off a train with a pushchair or up an escalator, worrying what time my daughter will be home and whether she is escorted, buying flowers and paying for dinner, etc.
Mike NewellThere are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul RichterA wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. [a variation of an oft used quote]
Grace HansenYou're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter HagenThey sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow
Bernard MalamudFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard MunchYou can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. [to a line judge, 1980 US Open]
John McEnroeWhere shall we make her grave?
Oh! where the wild flowers wave
In the free air!
When shower and singing-bird
'Midst the young leaves are heard,
There - lay her there!
Felicia HemansNo man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonI loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening [on his garden]
Terence StampIf you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
Joyce ChapmanIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil GibranOnce sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
Margery AllinghamWhen Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
Reginald HeberReading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
Paul WesterbergLatins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene DietrichDeep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore RoethkePeople are too myopic about making money and they get disappointed fast. If they haven't sold enough flowers they say: 'I'm out of here'.
Larry ChasePeople from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris MurdochThe flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
But beauty faded has no second spring. (The First Pastoral)
Ambrose PhilipsA cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Henry L MenckenFlowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther BurbankHelp us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Mary SartonRoses 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.
Rudyard Kipling
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?]
Eric Johnston
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot
Ben Jonson
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
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