Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

Felicia Hemans

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Francis Collins

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days

Francis Atterbury

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Francis Bacon

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Francis Bacon

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Michael Gambon

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Joan Fontaine

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

I'm more in the flow of the game. Last year, it was like pinch-hitting three times.

Tim Thomas

I'm just going with the flow now. I'd seen tape of the previous game and knew how high the score was. It's just a matter of me getting a better feel each and every game with my own teammates and my own sets here.

Ernest Holmes

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

Henry Miller

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

Henry Miller

All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Helen Keller

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

Helen Keller

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Helen Keller

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

Helen Keller

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Cassandra Clare

Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

George Eliot

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Laurence Tribe

That free flowing inherent power is the very thing we fought a revolution against.

The news flow (from companies) is still quite negative.

It was a terrible night for Raider fans, who battled a monumental traffic snarl to get into the parking lot, the traffic flow possibly handled by FEMA.

John King

It's a work flow issue. But work flow is huge.

It is part of a plan to make force mobility more difficult, to interdict the flow of supplies and of forces.

Richard Boucher

It's a global initiative with global reach and it's aimed at stopping the flow of weapons of mass destruction, missiles and related materials.

It's just getting back into the flow of things. When I first went out there, I thought I was fine. I practiced yesterday. I thought it was going to feel good. Regardless of what it looked like, I think I'm ready to go ... I should be all right for Tuesday.