Calyxes Quotes

#1. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

Nick Gordon

#3. I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator ... it
would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I'd always be in the red.

Pete Wentz

#5. Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Nancy Newhall

#6. I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Charley Pride

#7. Hope is a cruel bitch.

Ryan C. Thomas

#8. Not everything that is legal is reputable.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#9. The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Patrick O'Brian

#10. When you disrupt yourself, you are looking for growth, so if you want to muscle up a curve, you have to push and pull against objects and barriers that would constrain and constrict you. That is how you get stronger.

Whitney Johnson

#11. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez