Quotes of: Flowers Keyword

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

Rabbit, Run

To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It’s a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience.

Shadowplay

A beautiful person is protected like a beautiful flower in a garden which many gardeners tend.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.

Self

Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him.

Magic Graves

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems

A rose is a mixture of flower and thorns, which means it’s half “Let’s fuck,” and half “fuck you.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

My love is a flower. If you’d call that romantic, I’d agree and say it would look great on your grave.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

The Language of Flowers

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

Life and Fate

She walks in the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water-- She walks among the patterned pied brocade, Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.

The Land

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Starscape Boxed Set B Mixed

I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

Poems, 1905 1962

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The Pleasures of Life

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.

The Post Office