I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.
Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother’s Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that’s useful.
I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
My character from ‘Boys Over Flowers’ enjoyed being in love; he was romantic and smooth.
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
At my age flowers scare me.
‘Middle class’ used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg once and couldn’t really move around, I started playing around with it… putting the scent inside and dried flowers, and that’s it.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
I love Hexham, where I live. And ‘Grantchester’ reminds me of Hexham a lot. Everything is alive; the birdsong, the flowers, the vegetation.
I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot – I love plants and flowers.
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
The orchid’s association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, ‘I’ll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.’
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
The first trip I can remember would have to be to Marianna, Arkansas. My mother’s parents are from there, and we’d go every year to visit the church where they were buried. We’d attend church service that day, put flowers around their tombstones, and visit with family and friends that still lived there.
‘American Horror’ goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience – ‘Flowers in the Attic’ paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like ‘Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.’ It even has ‘Go Ask Alice’-era urban legends.
Writing has always been an interest of mine, and ‘The Language of Flowers’ combined my experience with foster care with something I’ve always wanted to do.
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
My whole house has a lot of silk flowers – it feels like a garden.
I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I’d bring her flowers and candy.
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
My parents told me I’d point to a bed of flowers and say ‘Pink. Pretty,’ before I knew any other words.
I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
As a young girl, I watched my mother hand-stitch thobes while sitting on the floor with a lamp at her side. She would make the small designs of flowers and different shapes. Just thinking about it brings up so many memories of my mother and how proud she was of being Palestinian.
When Nate and I got married, instead of flowers we had these quartz and rock crystals everywhere.
I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it’s important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!
I don’t feel like there’s any artists in the game that have been as creative as Missy Elliott. I feel like she’s a genius and she deserves all her flowers.
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
I named all my children after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I’m totally low maintenance. I don’t ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
I get chills when I think that there’s a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that.
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
I traveled a full two years with ‘Language of Flowers.’
I’m not really into getting bunches of flowers if I’m a bit under the weather, I’d rather have something to eat.
No Rain, No Flowers’ is an inside look into my journey of healing and growth.
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
When I listen to music, I don’t want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
When you’re doing exactly what you want to do, it’s not tiring. You’ve been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you’re like, ‘Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.’ That’s what I’m doing. I’m playing among the flowers.
I always wear ladies’ scents. I like the smell of flowers and men’s scents tend to smell like burnt photocopiers.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don’t know what they’re missing.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
