Top 100 A Daisy Quotes

#1. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#2. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.

Daisy Ashford

#5. Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280)

Danielle Weiler

#6. The sky was a clear, fresh blue,

Daisy Meadows

#7. Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two.

Iona Opie

#8. Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?

Daisy Whitney

#9. I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere.

Daisy Whitney

#10. Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more. "I'd be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.

Bob Dylan

#12. I don't believe him for a second, but I'm not telling Daisy that Dylan lied because I know what it's like to want a girl that much. To get dragged in the dirt behind her hoping you won't lose your grip.

Cath Crowley

#13. Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Daisy Whitney

#14. Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Daisy Ridley

#16. Making a shallow bow, Marcus smiled at Daisy, for whom he thought he could easily develop a brotherly affection. The slightness of her form and her sweetly exuberant spirit reminded him of Livia in her younger years.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die,' she said.

Eva Ibbotson

#18. Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

Thomas M. Disch

#19. It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

Daisy Berkowitz

#20. On some nights, I put old episodes of Dukes of Hazzard on and paused every scene with Daisy, wrapping my hand in a Confederate t-shirt or tube sock and going to town on my dick.

LeRoy Ned Malone

#21. The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

Henry James

#22. Daisy gave her a speaking glance, and her sister grinned. "Never fear," Lillian continued, "eventually we will succeed in infiltrating London society, and then we'll marry Lord Heavydebts and Lord Shallowpockets, and finally assume our places as ladies of the manor.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
[she points to a daisy]
Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
[she gestures to a field of daisies]

Colin Higgins

#24. Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

Daisy Ridley

#25. And if you don't like me, as I do you; I understand. Because who would really choose a daisy, in a field of roses?

Unknown

#26. The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies.

Mathias Malzieu

#27. Young Dandelion
On a hedge-side
Said young Dandelion
Who'll be my bride?
Said young Dandelion
With a sweet air,
I have my eye on
Miss Daisy fair.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#28. I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.

Daisy Whitney

#29. I like 'em feisty. Especially with that twangy accent you got going on. I'd give my last UFC check to see you in a pair of Daisy Duke shorts. With those long legs, I bet they'd look amazing.

Kele Moon

#30. No sugarcoating would be necessary," Matthew interrupted calmly. "Daisy ... that is, Miss Bowman, is entirely - " Beautiful. Desirable. Bewitching. " - acceptable. Marrying a woman like Miss Bowman would be a reward in itself.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.

Daisy Hernandez

#32. Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life.

Daisy Hernandez

#33. I've been dealt a fuller set of cards than the ones passed to Lily and Daisy. They're just as strong, if not stronger. I've always been here as extra reinforcement, and however old we become, however gray we are, that won't ever change.

Krista Ritchie

#34. What the hell was up with her nicknames anyway? Sunshine. Daisy. Candy. All bright, sweet things. She should insist on being called Spider or something. Darken her image a bit.

Cherrie Lynn

#35. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians.

Henry James

#36. ... if you really see a daisy, you see from here to infinity...

Deepak Chopra

#37. She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

Angela Carter

#38. See, I didn't turn into a monster. You're safe here with me, Daisy. I control that part because I don't allow it like he does.

Nancy Glynn

#39. Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at

F Scott Fitzgerald

#40. Hush, little students, we'll say the word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mama's gonna write down everything.
And so that book won't look the same,
Mama's gonna add a brand-new name.

Daisy Whitney

#41. I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

Augusten Burroughs

#42. I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

Richard Bach

#43. Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

Daisy Goodwin

#44. I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

Ann Coulter

#45. I want a hero. A big strong, handsome prince to come rescue me from my
miserable life. But since one has not arrived, I must rescue myself.

-Daisy

Jessica Clare

#46. I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

Daisy Fuentes

#47. When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.

Daisy Fuentes

#48. Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Daisy Fuentes

#49. The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.

Dorothea Dix

#50. Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#51. O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

Alice Meynell

#52. He's an avant-gardener whose great work includes the famous minimalist garden at Kew which was just a daisy and three wittily arranged grass stems.

Ben Moor

#53. Jack explained. "Daisy, you were meant for me. Dane destroyed that. You're lucky I don't set you on fire right this minute. It's either you or him. Pick." Jack chewed on a tooth pick, took it out of his mouth and pointed it at her and then Dane. "Pick, pick, pick," he said, pointing back and forth.

Nancy Glynn

#54. Only two things better in the world than your frosted sugar cookies with daisy sprinkles and those are pigs in a blanket and a man with a fine package. This I know as fact.

Kristen Ashley

#55. You're going to get yourself into a lot of trouble."
"Why?"
"Because of her right there. Do you know what Daisy would do if you ever cheated on her."
"Move on to the next guy that told her she has nice tits."
"Okay, you're probably right on that one.

Jessica Sorensen

#56. Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.

Francesca Lia Block

#57. I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

Daisy Fuentes

#58. Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

Daisy Berkowitz

#59. I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

Daisy Ridley

#60. If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

Chris Raschka

#61. And in the incendiary wake of Michael Brown's and Eric Garner's deaths at the hands of white police officers in the summer of 2014, a conventional production of Driving Miss Daisy that in no way subverts the text now seems nothing short of obscene. There

Jordan Tannahill

#62. Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

Rudy Rucker

#63. I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

Daisy Berkowitz

#64. I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

Art Buchwald

#65. I believe in the World as in a daisy.
Because I see it. But I don't think about it
Because thinking is not understanding ...

Fernando Pessoa

#66. is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain

Lewis Carroll

#67. I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?"
Lillian shot her a withering glance. "Daisy, don't be a pea wit.

Lisa Kleypas

#68. My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

Daisy Ridley

#69. Like a daisy fortune,
The pendulum of time
Beats in Dilara's heart
Loves me, loves me not...

-Tomris
October 1942, p.305.

A. Yavuz Oruc

#70. With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

William Wordsworth

#71. Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

William Mountford

#72. Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.

Daisy Whitney

#73. He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a 'nice' girl could be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#74. I like her. Not the body she comes in.
"Are you indecisive?" I wonder. "It looks like you have the rainbow in there."
"Precisely." She smiles, licking the chocolate off her fingers. "Unicorns love rainbows. I love unicorns. Therefore thy hair must be a rainbow.

Krista Ritchie

#75. It was as if that day was so dark that my mind folded in on itself, protectively, the way a daisy will at night.

Bill Richardson

#76. You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

Kevin Costner

#77. When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Daisy Whitney

#78. Oh, Evie ... " Daisy kicked morosely at a pebble. "I have the most horrible suspicion that Matthew Swift might actually be everything I ever wanted in a man.

Lisa Kleypas

#79. We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present.

Walter Kirn

#80. How can I not think of you as Daisy when your hair is all about your face like the petals of a flower?" He crouched down on his heels before her chair and picked up a thick curl. "It's glossy, like sunshine.

Eloisa James

#81. He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

Lois Greiman

#82. You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

Daisy Fuentes

#83. Whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up

Lewis Carroll

#84. ... if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional.

Daisy Whitney

#85. What make Gatsby so damn great - like da book's title indicatin' - is dat unlike da rest of deez shallow rich folk, Gatsby actually believe in somethin': love, dawg. He build himself a new identity jus' for Daisy. Errybody else straight-up empty inside.

Sparky Sweets

#86. She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.

Henry James

#87. An infant no more than six weeks old
a person in the still floppy, stunned by visual stimuli, sucking, arm and foot waving, grunting, grimacing phase of life. How I had loved that stage in my own Daisy's path of becoming. [p.46]

Siri Hustvedt

#88. of my face. Diane laid her dripping coat on a chair and searched for candles or a flashlight. Finally locating both in the basket on top of the fridge, she thanked me again. For what, I wasn't certain. "Listen, if the power is out tomorrow morning, come over and shower at my

Daisy Prescott

#89. Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

Mary Balogh

#90. And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it.

Mark Haddon

#91. Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.

Daisy Hernandez

#92. I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

Marc Jacobs

#93. The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.

Zora Neale Hurston

#94. Daisy said boldly. "Nothing
ventured, nothing gained."
"Yes, but it is a wise man who understands his limits."
"Who said that?" Daisy asked.
"I did," Honoria answered impatiently

Julia Quinn

#95. Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I

Daisy Hernandez

#96. [Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits."
"But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.

Erin Hunter

#97. Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

Daisy Donovan

#98. Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

Daisy Ridley

#99. What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.

Tom Robbins

#100. Speaking of this, he felt something had been returned to him, as though the inestimable losses of life had been lifted like a boulder, and beneath he saw - under the attentive gaze of Daisy's blue eyes - the comforts and sweetness of what had once been.

Elizabeth Strout

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