Top 123 Lilies Quotes & Sayings

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

I wanted the ending of 'Water Lilies' to be open, so that everyone can have their point of view about what will happen to the girls.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

Oh, I would while away the hours, Wanking in the flowers, my heart all full of song, I'd be gliding all the lilies as I waved about my willie, If I only had a schlong.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

The calla lilies are in bloom again.

And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

Really, with 'Water Lilies', the project was to end the movie where other movies would begin.

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

I filmed 'Water Lilies' in Cergy-Pointoise, a middle-class suburb about 20 km outside Paris. It's where I grew up and where Eric Rohmer filmed 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend' in 1986.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

Look to the lilies how they grow!

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.

What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.

But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.