Top 1200 Beautiful Flower Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful religion if you learn it the right way.

sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

That's why our country is such a beautiful, beautiful experiment: We manifest, we allow freedom if you follow certain rules and if you work really hard. That's at the root of our cherished values.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.

The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

People go overseas and say, 'Wow, it's so beautiful.' When they see the actual India, where I have filmed some of my key scenes, they will realize that our country is more beautiful than any other place in this world.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden.

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

I think I'm far too much of a wallflower or maybe a fragile flower to be in the military.

'Rectify' has been beautiful and emotional but grueling. In a beautiful way, in the right way.

Yes, I can! I certainly can! I can have A gratitude-flower-heart That shall remain open At all hours.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is.

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

I was lucky to land up in Mumbai when serious cinema was just beginning to flower.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.