#flower

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#flower #freedom #just #just living #little

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth". ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#age

To me, flowers are happiness. ↗

— Stefano Gabbana

#happiness #me

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#flower #flowers #i #i love #love

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#flowers #i #i love #language #love

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#always #awake #first #flowers #heart

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#bloom #flowers #good #good thing #i

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#caesar #flowers #hyacinth #mortality #rose

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom. ↗

— Cao Yu

#expected #fallen #flowers #like #new

Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #garden #inspirational #motivational #weeds