Flower Quotes - Page 23

• Oxford, en aquellos días, era todavía una ciudad de aguatinta. En sus espaciosas y tranquilas calles los hombres caminaban y hablaban como lo habían hecho en tiempos de Newman; sus brumas otoñales, su primavera gris y la rara gloria de sus días de verano -como aquel día-, cuando el castaño estaba en flor y las campanas sonaban altas y claras sobre sus frontones y cúpulas, exhalaban los suaves aires de siglos de juventud. Era este silencio de clausura el que daba a nuestra risa su resonancia, y la llevaba aún, alegremente, por encima del clamor intermedio.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Laughter, Men

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• I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Weapons, Thorns

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• You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

  Robert Jordan

  Heart, Journey, Dust

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.253, Macmillan

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• Asciende más allá de la atmósfera enfermiza a un plano superior, y purifícate bebiendo como si fuera ambrosía el fuego que llena y alimenta el Vacío. Libre de los esfuerzos inútiles y de las preocupaciones que oscurecen la existencia hasta convertirla en un reino de niebla, feliz es aquel que vuela hacia arriba con poderosos alerones hacia los campos de luz; cuyos pensamientos, como alondras, se elevan espontáneamente hacia el cielo de la mañana; cuyo vuelo, sin freno, alcanza la vida y comprende fácilmente el lenguaje de las flores y de todas las cosas mudas.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Drinking, Fire

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). "Les Fleurs Du Mal", p.14, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Pienso en la flor en capullo: acurrucada, comprimida, oscura. Sin embargo, de algún modo siente la noche, distingue la luna del sol. Espera... espera.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Oscuridad, Luna, Noche

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). "Love, Stargirl", p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• En sus entusiasmos siempre había buscado algo tangible: siempre había amado la iglesia por sus flores, la música por sus palabras románticas, la literatura por su poder para despertar las pasiones y se rebelaba ante los misterios de la fe del mismo modo que se volvía cada vez más inquieta bajo la disciplina, que era antipática a su naturaleza.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Passion, Discipline, Church

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• She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.

  Robert Graves

  Fall, Sleep, Dark

  Robert Graves (1986). “Selected poems”

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• Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

  John Sandford

  Rain, Dark, Moon

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• Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Healing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.112, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Sexy, Nice

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• And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Miracle, World

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Teacher, Art, Children

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• The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Mother, Art

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• Una flor es la forma que tienen las plantas de hacer el amor.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Making Love, Way, Plant

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). "Pequeña maravilla", p.48, Faber & Faber

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• A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ.

  Dave Barry

  Distance, Years, Tree

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cheer, People, Stones

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• ... Yo soy más de andar por casa. Una vez oí a mi antiguo jefe en Dublín describirme como muy "hola árboles, hola flores". Pretendía ser un insulto y cumplió su cometido; me sentí insultado. Tenía poco interés en saludar a los árboles y a las flores, pero tampoco trataba la vida como una cinta de correr, en la que era vital seguir huyendo hacia delante para evitar ser succionado por la espalda y quedar fuera de juego.

  Marian Keyes

  Order, Games, Tree

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• Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.

  Boris Pasternak

  Book, Eye, Love Life

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• A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

  Kay Ryan

  Color, Midnight, Needs

  Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Una flor florece mejor en una maceta feliz.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Pot, Blooming Flower

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• Recogedor de ranúnculos violetas dientes de león Y las grandes margaritas bravuconas por el campo maravilloso con ojos un poco apenados Viene otro también recogiendo flores

  e. e. cummings

  Bullying, Sorry, Eye

  E. E. Cummings (1996). "Tulipanes y chimeneas", p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Laughter, Night

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

  Anais Nin

  Amor, Corazón, Gente

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• The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

  Roberto Bolano

  Sunset, Sky

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• Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Journey, Three, Messages

  Mercedes Lackey (1989). “Oathbreakers”, p.220, Penguin

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