Do Not Pluck Flowers Quotes

#1. The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

Pearl S. Buck

#2. The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.

Amy Carmichael

#3. We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

James Randi

#4. I've been driving since I was 19 years old.

Kathleen Wynne

#5. Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentile hand
Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined
In memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far off land.

Lewis Carroll

#7. If there's a 'land of the blindfolded', will there be someone who understands what it's like to be able to 'see'?

Sakura Tsukuba

#8. ... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Sophocles

#11. I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

#12. The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Joseph Goebbels

#13. We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Paul Morley

#14. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

Karl Marx

#15. No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

Dick Morris

#16. Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,
Hoard not thy beauty rose and white,
But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers
That deck our little path of light:
For all too soon we twain shall tread
The bitter pastures of the dead:
Estranged, sad spectres of the night.

Ernest Dowson