230 Flowers Quotes for You to Enjoy

I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene. Chelsea Cain

Good Women Nurturing Expectation Scene Delicate Write Know Am Cultural Mean Flowers

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas. Christophe de Margerie

People Car Say People Say Someday Inventing Well Coming Maybe Oil Where Available Electric Electric Cars Electricity Now Gas Flowers

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world. Christopher Columbus

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. Chuck Jones

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued. Craig Brown

Good Garden Good Taste Admitted Seems Only Coloured Idea Over Vulgar Years Discreet Up Taste Grown Grown-Up Brightly Flowers

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work. Craig Johnston

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading. Daniel Keyes

Love People Reading Fact Part Doing Get Flowers

Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial. David Mixner

Beautiful Vision Bird Will Country Spring Nation Every Trees Our Claim Carpet Memorial Only Lay Johnson Could Remembered Reminded Texas Bloom America Lady Capital Her Flowers

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla. Diane Ackerman

Winter Enjoy Would Tropical Could If I Could Skiing Grow Flowers Raising

It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic. Douglas Booth

My whole house has a lot of silk flowers - it feels like a garden. Dylan Lauren

Garden Silk Feels Like House Lot Whole Flowers

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. Egon Schiele

Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in. Elizabeth Bibesco

Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.' Elizabeth Flock

Day You Care Valentines Day Dinner Gesture Nice Every Valentine Say Pretend John Some Over-The-Top Like Make Cheesy How Person Want Anything Us Chocolates Many Showy Ridiculously Homemade Card Flowers

I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors. Ellie Kemper

Day Me Will Enough Our Embrace Some Something Wedding Priest Vegetarian Wrong Name Perhaps Calls Am Go According Errors Anticipating Meals Plan Fully Many Actual Things Flowers

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. Emma Tennant

Me Gardening Speak Plants Wild Everything Like Know Because Always Am Exotic Friends Just Hedge Interested Interesting Them Really Paint Even Growing Grown Flowers

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things. Federico Fellini

Good Nature Destruction Picture Grass Difficult Fragmentation Other Would Like Talk Make Cover Surrounded Very Confident Human Which Much Produces Pessimism Shower Things Flowers

Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes! Francois Nars

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. Gerald Massey

Kindness World Our Thorns Ours Only Blindness Dearth Flowers Gather

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. Gertrude Stein

Friendship Before Faded Flowers

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

Feathers Made Design Else All-Around Something Something Else Bouquet Around Tightly Waist Going Often Held Flowers

I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does. Hanya Yanagihara

Work Love Had Idea Combination Like Well Does Always How Cuisine Tastes Flavor Ingenious Vietnamese Seafood Flowers

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. Henry Walter Bates

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue. Hilarie Burton

Garden Black Statue Poe Only Purple Cat Raven Named Couple Edgar Where After Upstate Planted Things Flowers

I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science. Hope Jahren

Life Day Science People Soil My Life Other Trees One Day Tell Seeds About Studying Over Scientist Scientists Been Years Just Wanted Realized Twenty Flowers Needed

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