Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

    “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.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “At least I have the flowers of myself,
    and my thoughts, no god
    can take that;
    I have the fervour of myself for a presence
    and my own spirit for light....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)