Top 1200 Flower Blossom Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.

Success does not necessarily create happiness. I could take you on a tour of West Lost Angeles. You would be surprised that happiness does not blossom in Beverly Hills any more than it does in most places.

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

A lot of men tend to mix a couple of fragrances and smell like a flower garden. Avoid!

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.

I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.