Best Carnations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A woman I didn't recognize tapped my arm. She was elderly, but still stood tall, her dark eyes bright with sadness. She wore a black brocade gown edged with red. She held out a bouquet of red carnations and white narcissus. She stepped forward and placed the flowers on Bartolomeo's headstone, then stepped back and slipped into the crowd so fast I could not see where she went. I stared down at the flowers. Narcissus was a common spring flower at funerals, but red carnations meant only love, deep abiding love. I had never seen her before. Who was she?”

Red True Love Stella Carnations Bartolomeo Scappi Stella And Bartolomeo

Book:The Chef's Secret

Source: The Chef's Secret

“For some reason he remembered the Mexican name for carnations. Somebody must have told him when he was a kid. They were called Nails of Love ---and marigolds , the Nails of Death. It was a word lie nails---claveles. Maybe he'd better put marigolds on his mothers grave.”

Carnations Marigolds

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.”

Break Midsummer Musk Carnations

Author:Matthew Arnold

“If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.”

Ifs Crush Petals Carnations

Author:Paul Weller

“To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.”

Soul My Soul Paradise Shade Fades Carnations

Book:The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes

Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes

“Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.”

Years Growing Flower Birth Summer Seasons Winter Ancient Trembling Carnations

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.”

Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring

“The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.”

Kind Shows Water White Sea Color Green Candlelight Sea Water Carnations

Book:Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Source: Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

“I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.”

Thinking Differences Photograph Ass Bowls Fists Carnations

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.”

“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

Ifs Soul Certain Dark Fire Love You Shadow Rose Salt Arrows Wedding Ceremony Dark Things I Don't Love You Carnations Topaz

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about.”

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Author:Luis Palau

“And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.”

Thinking Flower Bed Carnations

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.”

World Wells Different Reason Race Flower Masters Garden Harmony Rose Slave Colonialism Irises Carnations

Author:Savitri Devi

“Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.”

Two War Body Light Dark Love Is Fire Blood Kissing Rivers Delight Tiny Village Infinity Slips Transformed Lightning Sweetness Ruined Margins Nocturnal Carnations

Author:Pablo Neruda

“To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.”

Thinking Writing Long Winning Grace Sweet Flower Taste Dear Approval Trophies Enchanting Overdue Carnations

Author:Ruth Pitter

“My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.”

Years Remember Song Sides Red Buying My Sister Valentine Valentine's Day Momma My Momma Carnations Granddaddy

Author:Josh Turner

“I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden. I may sound like a kook who plants my landscape with cucumbers instead of carnations, peppers instead of petunias, and fruit trees rather than ficus, but I am convinced that wherever you go, you can grow food! Now is the time for us to join together and plant the seeds that will transform the places in which we live.”

Believe May Home Together I Believe Grows Sound Ability Tree Garden Plant Fruit Seeds Convinced Landscape Appropriate Location Peppers Cucumbers Fruit Trees Petunias Carnations

Author:Greg Peterson