Flower Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

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

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

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

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

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.