Top 1200 Inspirational Flower Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.

When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.

The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.

There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn't even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

Beauty ain't always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, 'Damn.'

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.