#lowers

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. ↗

— Earl Browder

#change #coats #consequently #did #efforts

At my age flowers scare me. ↗

— George Burns

#flowers #me #scare

I don't want followers. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#i #want

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

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#building #dignity #empowerment #flowers #gender

There is no road of flowers leading to glory. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#glory #leading #road

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#bloom #contend #flowers #hundred #schools

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. ↗

— Ken Hill

#dry #flowers #like #minds #sit

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. ↗