Earth laughs in flowers. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: laughter earth flowers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Amen of nature is always a flower. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More about this quote Tags: nature flowers praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. —Georgia O'Keeffe More about this quote Tags: beauty art flowers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: flowers roses diamonds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Flowers . . . put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining. . . . They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will. —J. Rambosson More about this quote Tags: evil will fighting desire flowers tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Arnold Bennett visited Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in his apartment and, knowing his host's love of flowers, was surprised that there was not a single vase of flowers to be seen. He remarked on their absence to Shaw: "But I thought you were so fond of flowers." "I am," said Shaw, "and I'm very fond of children, too, but I don't chop their heads off and stand them in pots about the house. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: children death flowers decapitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. —Georgia O'Keeffe More about this quote Tags: art flowers painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: spring flowers autumn Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. —Claude Monet More about this quote Tags: art flowers painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email