T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The flower is strong in its beauty as it can be forgotten, set aside, or destroyed. The ambitious do not know beauty. The feeling of essence is beauty.”
Source: On God: A Spiritual Philosophy for Radical Freedom―Experiencing the Sacred Beyond Dogma
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
“The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.”
“The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.”
“The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.”
Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“The flower of love soon fades, but the flower of art is immortal.”
“The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.”
“The flower of the present rosily blossomed.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.”
“The flower replied: you fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.”
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
“The flower that does not smile
at the branches withers.”
Source: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart
“The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”
Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition
“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”
“The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.”
“The flower which goes to hand and hands will remain nothing except harm.”
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
Source: Poems
“The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.”
“The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.”
“The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.”
“The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.”
Source: Poetical works
“The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.”
Source: Human Action
“The flowering of love is meditation.”
“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.”
“The flowers are for the woman I glimpsed for just a moment the other night before she ran away with tears brimming in her eyes." His eyes drifted over the becoming blush of her cheeks, wondering why it was suddenly there. "That's the woman I see when I look at you. That's the woman I want to get to know tonight. Do you think she might be joining us?”
Source: Lap Dancing
“The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.”
“The flowers are in full bloom. The hills are clothed in marigolds. Could it be a scented summer?”
“The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.”
Source: Gems, principally from the antique, drawn and etched by Richard Dagley ... With illustrations in verse, by the Rev. G. Croly
“The flowers are not needed now: pluck every one; cut down the trees and burn the fields; drain the rivers and desert the earth. For nothing now can ever bring us joy.”
“The flowers are ravined
by bees, the fruit blossoms
are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything.”
Source: Selected Poems of Charles Olson
“The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined!”
“The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.”
“The flowers bloomed, the bees buzzed.”
“The flowers danced, knowing that they will die.”
“The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“The flowers don’t discriminate. Only men with their superior reason.”
Source: The Book of Madness and Cures
“The flowers don’t light up the sky, and the stars don’t attract butterflies. But the flowers and the stars combine to light up our world and guide us home and are as precious to us as we are to them.”
“The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured, passionate like you.”
“The flowers inside your body are more beautiful than the flowers outside - full with fragrance and love. They are the sunshine and the medicine of your soul. Oh, the lost one come back to the source. You will be happier than ever before.”
Source: Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions
“The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.”
Source: Poems of Edward Thomas
“The flowers must have been the latest generation of perennials, whose ancestors were first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself and a smoky, serious husband and perhaps a pair or silent, serious daughters, and the flowers were an act of resistance against the raw, bare lot with its raw house sticking up from the raw earth like an act of sheer, inevitable, necessary madness because human beings have to live somewhere and in something and here is just as outrageous as there because in either place (in any place) it seems like an interruption, an intrusion on something that, no matter how many times she read in her Bible, Let them have dominion, seemed marred, dispelled, vanquished once people arrived with their catastrophic voices and saws and plows and began to sing and hammer and carve and erect. So the flowers were maybe a balm or, if not a balm, some sort of gesture signifying the balm she would apply were it in her power to offer redress.”
“The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.”
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
“The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)
“The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.”
Source: Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year
“The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
“The flowers speak the unspoken grief, as the soul has flowered in the torment of emotions, searing the depths. Only in the hardest hour do we grasp the dawning light.”
“The flowers speak the unspoken grief, as the soul has flowered in the torment of searing emotions. Only in the hardest hour do we grasp the dawning light.”
“The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“The flowers that bloom in spring, the willows, the raindrops and snowflakes became shrines.
The mornings ushering in each day, the evenings that daily darken, became shrines.”
Source: Human Acts