Flowers Quotes
- Page 5Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Robert Mapplethorpe
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
David Hockney
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Nicholas Culpeper
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max Beckmann
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Ethel Waters
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
Wangari Maathai
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin Luther
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
Jeff Buckley
I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.
Billie Piper
I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
Jim Sullivan
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Christopher Smart
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Augustus Hare
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Lucretius
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.
Giambattista Valli
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
LeRoy Neiman
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?
Shaquille O'Neal
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.
Anne Rice