Flowers Quotes

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!'

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.