#flower

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#believe #clover #dream #entwined #flowers

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. ↗

— John Lennon

#flower #got #grow #know #love

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

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

#double #flowers #funeral #house #i

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships? ↗

— W. D. Richter

#expect #flower #metal #ships #space

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#anyone #anything #book #composition #country

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ↗

— Ikkyu Sojun

#break #breeze #brings #cherry #flowers

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#despair #even #flower #happiness #joy

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#anguish #arises #bitterness #enchantment #flowers