#flowers

Let a hundred flowers bloom. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#flowers #hundred

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#am #buy #cultivate #dirt #flowers

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#arranger #bouquet #children #desires #determined

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#delighting #flowers #fruits #his #man

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

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#everything #family #fields #flowers #i

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#born #farm #flowers #get #i

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#faded #flowers #friendship

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#being #couple #even #flowers #herbie

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#flowers #humor #love #humor