#flowers

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #attention #close #eyes #flowers

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

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#all things #birthday #born #candles #covered

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

#circle #coming #continuum #flowers #full

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#bitterness #delight #flowers #fountain #heart

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#bitter #flowers #fountain #midst #something

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beautiful #called #celebrate #flame #flower

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#another #any #close #enough #flowers

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#been #die #dressing #dressing room #enough

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#coffin #cynic #flowers #looks #man