| "We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah |
| "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold." »William Wordsworth |
| "Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly' I'm afraid some people might actually think that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton |
| "Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan |
| "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." »Georgia O'Keeffe |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford |
| "Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do." »Casino |
| "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire |
| "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." »Jean Giraudoux |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it." »Jesse Lair |
| "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." »John Muir |
| "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." »William Wordsworth |
| "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." »William Shakespeare |
| "The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." »T. Starr King |
| "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." »George MacDonald |
| "Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." »William Blake |
| "The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower." »Edith Hamilton |
| "Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk" »Alice Walker |
| "Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated." »Alexander Osborn |
| "From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)" »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us." »Thomas Nash |
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