#lowers

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#education #flowers-for-algernon #intelligence #education

Too many kings can ruin an army ↗

— Homer

#followers #kings #leaders #leadership #leadership-vs-management

Why am I always looking at life through a window? ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #life

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#beauty-in-nature #flowers #summer #sunlight #sunshine

Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they'd done a good job. ↗

— Truman Capote

#funeral #grief #house #phonies #satisfaction

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#flowers #garden #grow #i #like

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!' ↗

— Delta Burke

#flowers #i #rose #say #says

At my age flowers scare me. ↗

— George Burns

#flowers #me #scare

I want my flowers while I'm alive. ↗