#flo

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved. ↗

— Honor Blackman

#behaved #bus #candy #civil #civil service

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#believe #compilation #falling #floor #going

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ↗

— William Blackstone

#been #bulwark #defense #england #ever

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. ↗

— John Dewey

#color #does #flower #fruitless #just

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#books #children #floor #got #i

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#brazil #enthusiastic #flowers #latins #tenderly

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ↗

— William Blake

#flower #grain #grain of sand #hands #heaven

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

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#blood #constructed #diluted #extract #flows