Quotes by Flower You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe. A. D. Gordon land flower roots Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more. A. E. Hotchner flower writing two Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word. A. E. Housman farewell flower heart Power is the flower of organization. A. Philip Randolph humanist flower organization Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed. Abby May Alcott sorrow flower giving In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. Aberjhani garden flower eye A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. Aberjhani flower bird art The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy. Aberjhani agony flower bridges 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 garden flower mind There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring. Adah Isaacs Menken grief flower spring Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses? Adam Johnson flower rose life I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate. Adam Ross flower new-york goodbye Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace! Adolf Hitler flower simple war William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. Adrian Desmond flower ignorance science Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting. Adriana Lima husband important flower Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host. Aeschylus host flower war If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower. Agnes Denes flower bees littles If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need. Ai Yazawa falling-in-love flower sweet Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian. Aiden Wilson Tozer honesty flower christian We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it. Akiane Kramarik nature flower inspirational 1234567891011»