Calyx Quotes

#1. Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Cao Yu

#3. We fill the nothing with suns,
line them up,
swallow sap, swallow
field, drop by drop, each stem
a pump. Rose to rose to rose to
rose to rose to rose to rose, calyx &
anther, all summer
gone.

Nick Flynn

#4. You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H.L. Mencken

#6. That's what brave is, you know. Doing what needs to be done when you're scared shitless.

Jacqueline Rhoades

#7. What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. People don't want to see me having sex ... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger.

Julia Roberts