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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
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
- Blooms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020