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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot
Ben Jonson
I've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried. [on Cherie Blair]
Tony Blair
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
Values 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 Newell
You can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. [to a line judge, 1980 US Open]
John McEnroe
I 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 Masefield
They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow
Bernard Malamud
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa
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)
Jane Elliott
I'm overwhelmed by all the flowers people sent me. [after being attacked]
John Savident
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike
At my age flowers scare me
George Burns
Throughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
Emma Stansfield
Where have all the flowers gone? (Title of song, 1961)
Pete Seeger
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
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 Aniston
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
Where 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 Hemans
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
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
Standish O'Grady
People 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 Chase
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul Richter
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
Flowers are happy things.
P G Wodehouse
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
Margery Allingham
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening [on his garden]
Terence Stamp
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 Dushku
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
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