Flower Quotes - page 4

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up. (Robert Browning)
Oh, call my brother back to me! I cannot play alone: The summer comes with flower and bee,- Where is my brother gone? View quote
Felicia Hemans
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery. View quote
Edith Wharton
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. View quote
Metastasio
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. View quote
Metastasio
A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 a.m. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. View quote
Herb Caen
Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (Thomas Gray)
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town. View quote
John Fante
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha-which is to demean oneself. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. View quote
Francis Thompson
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. View quote
George Sand
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. View quote
Richard Feynman
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. View quote
Carl Sagan
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
To create a little flower is the labour of ages. (William Blake)
Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised. View quote
Vanna Bonta
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. View quote
Anne Brontë
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold. View quote
James Russell Lowell
And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. View quote
William Cullen Bryant