Flower Quotes

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

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.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

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.

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 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.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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.

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.

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?

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

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.

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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.