“Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.” MayChildrenSaidHalfPlanetsFlowerOur ChildrenRoseTigersSlaughterInstituteLiliesFelineVipers Book:Venus Invisible: And Other Poems Source: Venus Invisible: And Other Poems
“Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?” IfsShouldChildrenSoulHomeMightLastsEvilWaitingSweetFlowerGrewPrayingHabitComfortSpringOur ChildrenDown AndVictimWineBonesWoundsGravesYour ChildrenImmortalMarchResurrectionProphecyDrunkennessPraying To GodSlumberDrunkardsDrummingImmortal SoulIntemperance Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage
“I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.” KnowsMayChildrenEyeMemoriesTreeFlowerOur ChildrenPoeticAfterlifeAgain And AgainAfter Death Book:Me Source: Me
“The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and at-tractive.” WayMayChildrenUseSchoolPurposeLanguageNaturalTreeObjectsFlowerOur ChildrenProtectionPrimariesReverencePreservationLegislatureCommonwealthStatutesNature LoveShrubsArbor DayArbors Author:Andrew S. Draper
“... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.” CountryStarsSunForeverChildhoodFieldsFlowerMoonOur ChildrenInsectsLanesMoon And StarsSun MoonSun Moon And Stars Author:Edna O'Brien
“Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.” ShouldChildrenTreeFlowerProtectWasteWeaponsResourcesOur ChildrenGravesDestroyingGrandchildrenMemorialMemorial DayChildren And Grandchildren Book:Howard Zinn on War Source: Howard Zinn on War
“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.” ThinkingChildrenHandsEarthParentLossGriefDivineColorFlowerOur ChildrenYour ChildrenTouchedShadeThink Of YouBloomingWitheredParent ChildLoss Of A Parent Author:Richard Hooker
“You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.” PeopleIfsWantGivingChildrenWould BeMotherFlowerGive MeOur ChildrenGuiltChocolate Author:Anne Lamott
“When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives” TryingChildrenMadeDifferentGirlBoysHeardFlowerAdultsDecidedOur ChildrenSeekingCompromiseHatedRejectionFrightenedLaughedMistakenHollowHippieHideousBoy And GirlHippi Author:June Jordan
“Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased."” ChildrenDoeRealFatherHeavenSidesFiveFlowerDadTasteBallsOur ChildrenTablesSeriesPreparedMy DadDinnerLike MeDishesLiteralLuminousPetalsCanalsDinner TableGusPlasma Author:John Green
“Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.” PeopleWantChildrenRealHelpingUseEnergyLove IsCreativityFlowerOur ChildrenYour ChildrenCherishReal Power Author:Marion Woodman