Flowers Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

I like perfume and flowers.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.