#lowers

At my age flowers scare me. ↗

— George Burns

#flowers #me #scare

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. ↗

— Chanakya

#flowers #fragrance #goodness #only #person

I want my flowers while I'm alive. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#flowers #i #want #while

I don't want followers. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#i #want

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. ↗

— Brian Clough

#dead #flowers #i #like #me

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#almost #class #completely #effect #extra

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#am #country #duped #exciting #followers

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues. ↗

— Robert Cray

#anything #better #blues #could #flowers

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #back #democrat #flowers #hall