Flowers Quotes
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
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.
I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.
And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles)
The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
