Quotes by Flower My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice flower white house But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art. Anne Rice flower home art Daisies in water are the longest lasting Anne Sexton flower giving water I raise my pelvis to God Anne Sexton flower faith sex They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them. Anne Sexton innocent vulnerable flower I did not know the woman I would be Anne Sexton growing-up flower children You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play. Anne Sullivan Macy flower rain love She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface. Anne Ursu plastic nice flower Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. Annie Dillard rocks flower fear Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets? Annie Dillard nature flower pet I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry. Annie E. Clark airports nice flower When the State withers, humanity flowers. Anthony Burgess states flower humanity If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. Anthony de Mello flower mean children As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens. Anthony de Mello garden flower rain Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die. Anthony de Mello alive flower looks Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault. Antoine de Saint-Exupery faults flower love-you If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars flower sweet In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her. Antoine de Saint-Exupery flower silly running The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. Antoine de Saint-Exupery rejection flower beautiful I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars flower pride «678910111213141516»