Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

    “Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
    The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
    The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
    The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.”
    —Jean Elliot (1727–1805)

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

    “The pallor of girl’s brows shall be their pall;
    Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
    And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)