#lowers

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

An Evening Air I go out in the grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation. I go out into the hard loneliness of the barren field of grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation. In the gathering darkness a long, swift train suddenly Passes me like a lighting. Hard and ponderous and loud are the wheels. As ponderous as the darkness, and as beautiful. I look on, enchanted, and listen to the sounds of lamentation In the soft fragrant air. The long rails, grey-dark, smooth as a serpent, shiver, and A soft, low thing cries out in the distance, But the sounds are hard and heavy, In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation. ↗

— Samar Sen

#flowers #night #beauty

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#always #better #flowers #food #happier

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? ↗

— Max de Pree

#among #appear #change #conflict #followers

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

Flowers grow out of dark moments. ↗

— Corita Kent

#flowers #grow #moments #out

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #department #distracted #fixed #followers

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#faded #flowers #friendship

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ↗

— Richard H. Stoddard

#desire #flowers #grow #human #like

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