| "She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." »Marita Bonner |
| "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 |
| "Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "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 |
| "Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS..." »Anonymous |
| "Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." »Frances Watkins Harper |
| "I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton |
| "I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton |
| "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton |
| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford |
| "Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan |
| "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." »William Wordsworth |
| "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." »John Muir |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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