Best flower & bed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.”

Giving Years Ends Fall Next Growing Flower Huge Bed Protect Seasons Lays Plant Winter Seeds Setting Settings Soil Gardening Decay Next Year October Head Start Planting Seeds

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.”

Firsts Age Crime Flower Pride Bed Equal Rose Passing Passings Mortals Prime Decay Leafs Bud Deck

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.”

“The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.”

Lying Race Flower Bed Gentle

Author:William C. Bryant

“Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.”

Past Flower Bed Hot Our Past Leafs Your Past Mould

Book:Dreamthorp: eight essays

Source: Dreamthorp: eight essays

“I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.”

Ifs Home Tree Flower Bed Bills Dollars Enormous Hung Immaculate Dollar Bills Landscaping

Book:Out of The Easy

Source: Out of The Easy

“Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.”

Looks Doe Reason Past Flower Bed Distance Point Of View Nostalgia Reason Why Meadows Enticing

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.”

“Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.”

Thinking Men Age Given Sun Middle Flower Bed Summer Hot Middle Ages Weeping Mint Lavender Marigolds

Book:Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.”

Should Young Danger Flower Bed Scientist Data Conception Enthusiastic Selected Underestimated

Author:Andre Michel Lwoff

“My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.”

Parent Flower Bed

Author:Joni Mitchell

“All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep.”

Ifs Giving May Doe Two Eye Three Names Black Sleep Forget Cutting Flower Bed Garden Rose Shy Glances Flirting Noon Vases Forget Me Musk Forget Me Not Hyphens Flirtatious

Author:Willard R. Espy

“I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.”

Thinking Way Writing Next Imagination Particular Poet Flower Bed Ocean Spring Sensibility Brooklyn Wisconsin

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.”

Knows Feels Stills Moments Home Seems House Lost Air Fronts Flower Bed Rain Garden Cooking Caught Smell These Days Schedules Back Home Driveway

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”

Should Believe Dream Together Left I Believe Sleep Flower Lovers Bed Clovers Entwined

Author:Conor Oberst

“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”

I Can Eye Lying Walks Vision Steps Seeing Journey Land Flower Walking Bed Stones Legs Wander Rough Take Me Thank God Hiking Patches Trekking Strolling Cotton Sauntering Bogs

Author:Beatrix Potter

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

Humor Funny Flower Wall Fine Bed Rose Description Twilight Courtesy Flattered Catalogues Rose Garden Bed Of Roses

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

Fields Flower Battle Bed Rose Bed Of Roses

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.”

Knows Said Felt Know How Wind Flower Bed Rain Garden Lays

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.”

Thinking Should Littles Done Feelings Today Flower Bed Garden Dear Cooks Diaries Petals Daisies Emma Menus Thrice

Author:Jane Austen

“Tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free.”

“Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?”

Said Fall Language Secret Heard Dying Cry Flower Bed Conversation Understood Snow Spokes Gossip Cricket Caterpillars Flakes Starlings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.”

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”

“Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which others find their end: again and again the two of us go out under the ancient trees, make our bed again and again between the flowers, face to face with the skies”

Knows Littles Two Ends Faces Names Language Secret Tree Sky Flower Bed Ancient Again And Again Abyss Face To Face Two Of Us Language Of Love Ancient Trees

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.”

Stills Left My Own College Flower Bed Cute Weed Dandelions

Book:Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“Catch me, Seth," she invited. He paused. "Faeries chase," he said, an then , with a flirtatious smile, he turned away, but before he could take a second step, she was behind him, arms around him, lips pressed against his neck. "I seem caught," he murmured. The Summer Queen whispered, "Me too." And They fell together in a bed of flowers that now covered the floor”

Said Seems Together Behinds Steps Flower Arms Bed Summer Lips Caught Queens Necks Covered Invited Faerie Catch Me Flirtatious

Author:Melissa Marr

“What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”

Thinking Littles Use Desire Night Names Morning Mines Flower Habit Bed Tables Assuming Spread Hearing Wide Neglect Little Things Cheeks Dishes Crave Think Of You Sellers

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.”

Way Light Universe Bits Rooms Boys Saws Pieces Planets Flower Broken Bed Infinite Glasses Cells Rainbow Insects Shifting Tubes Dividing Kaleidoscope Broken Glass Infinite Universe

Book:Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.”

Ends Flower Bed Garden Window Rose Size Streams Lakes Shed Bullets Castles Muddy Pumpkin Raindrops Hagrid

Book:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!”

May Stills Fire Tree Feet Flower Bed Red Standing Stones Rounds Corners Grass Roof Weary Leafs

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”

Art Flower Bed Thee Weary Pillow Moss

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.”

Ifs Looks Different Night Gone Tree Flower Bed Stones Woods Versions Daytime Ominous

Author:Suzanne Collins

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