- God
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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
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
- Emblem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my first flower stall when I was seven, at the end of the drive in Minehead, Somerset. Nobody was stopping so I moved it to my neighbour's drive, because I thought: 'Location, location, location.' It worked.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love games like 'Flower,' for example - I thought this was amazing. It's great, it's new, it's different, and it's invented something that didn't exist before.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
- Decorated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020