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- Nov 07, 2020
Flower Quotes
On blossoming, and what it's asked to represent.
A flower stands in here for artistic growth, a planted tree marking a celebration, and a lotus used as a lens for understanding the universe. One line even imagines a flower shaped for outer space instead of metal. See Flowers quotes for more blossoms.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
- Fruitless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020