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In the face of adversity, always remember to stand tall like a sunflower and bloom regardless of the storms.
Author:
Lily Davis
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Sow seeds of kindness, and watch love bloom in abundance.
Author:
Maya Patel
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Roses may get all the attention, but don't forget the lilies - elegant and timeless in their own right.
Author:
Jasmine Rowe
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Author:
Cao Yu
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Flowers are happy things.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
Author:
Bert Williams
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Author:
Isaac Watts
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Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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I like perfume and flowers.
Author:
Donatella Versace
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Author:
Lope Vega
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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Author:
Thomas Tusser
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Author:
Mao Tung
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Author:
Lewis Thomas
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
Author:
Jim Sullivan
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I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Author:
Richard Stoddard
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Author:
Lincoln Steffens
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And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
Author:
Ringo Starr
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I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
Author:
Soundarya
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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Author:
Ikkyu Sojun
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Author:
Christopher Smart
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Author:
Andres Segovia
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Author:
May Sarton
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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
Author:
John Ruskin
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If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
Author:
Sonny Rollins
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Author:
Theodore Roethke
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
Author:
Andy Richter
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There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Author:
Grantland Rice
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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Author:
Anne Rice
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For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Author:
Al Purdy
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Author:
Antonio Porchia
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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
Author:
Ambrose Philips
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Author:
Jean Paul
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
Author:
C. Parkinson
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
Author:
Shaquille O'Neal
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Author:
Beverley Nichols
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Author:
Pablo Neruda
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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
Author:
Anna Neagle
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Author:
Claude Monet
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Author:
Claude Monet
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Author:
A. Milne
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Author:
Gian Menotti
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Author:
H. Mencken
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Author:
Gerald Massey
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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Author:
Andrew Marvell
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Author:
Walter Mare
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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.
Author:
Orison Marden
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Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
Author:
Bernard Malamud
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Author:
Martin Luther
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Author:
Lucretius
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Author:
Lucretius
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Author:
Lucretius
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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Author:
Francis Lowell
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You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Author:
Doug Larson
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I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
Author:
Lillie Langtry
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Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Author:
Letitia Landon
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Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Author:
Corita Kent
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Author:
Helen Keller
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Author:
Chuck Jones
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I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
Author:
Craig Johnston
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
Author:
Phillip Johnson
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Author:
Jean Ingelow
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Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Author:
Jean Ingelow
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It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
Author:
Lena Horne
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Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
Author:
Ken Hill
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There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
Author:
Jennifer Hewitt
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I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.
Author:
Jennifer Hewitt
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I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
Author:
Grace Hansen
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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
Author:
Knut Hamsun
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Author:
Walter Hagen
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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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.
Author:
John Gardner
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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
Author:
John Foxe
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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Earth laughs in flowers.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Author:
Annie Dillard
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Author:
Marlene Dietrich
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When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
Author:
Jonathan Davis
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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
Author:
Jonathan Davis
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I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
Author:
Ray Davies
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The earth laughs in flowers.
Author:
e. cummings
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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
Author:
Nicholas Culpeper
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Author:
Nicholas Culpeper
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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Author:
Marcelene Cox
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Author:
Charles Colton
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Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Author:
Brian Clough
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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I want my flowers while I'm alive.
Author:
Chubby Checker
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Author:
Chanakya
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
Author:
Lacey Chabert
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Author:
Eddie Cantor
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At my age flowers scare me.
Author:
George Burns
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If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"
Author:
Delta Burke
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Author:
Luther Burbank
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All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
Author:
Jeff Buckley
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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Author:
Ruth Brown
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Author:
Beau Bridges
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The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Author:
Richard Blackmore
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Author:
Georges Bernanos
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Author:
Jeremy Bentham
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Author:
Max Beckmann
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Author:
Henry Bates
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Author:
Matsuo Basho
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Author:
Pedro Barca
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
Author:
George Balanchine
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Author:
Louis Aragon
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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.
Author:
Jennifer Aniston
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
Author:
Ursula Andress
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
Author:
James Allen
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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Author:
Lyman Abbott
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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!
Author:
Edward Abbey
