#flower

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#children #die #flowers #god #loan

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#children #chocolate #flowers #give #give me

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. ↗

— Doug Larson

#english #english language #flowers #language #made

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#about #being #connecting #considered #favorite

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#beast #bird #flower #man #most

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#details #did #draw #eyes #flowers

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. ↗

— John Lennon

#flower #got #grow #love is #you

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#educate #flowers #good #good way #i