Dried Flower Quotes

#1. The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent. Old love; there's no other kind of love in this room now.

Margaret Atwood

#2. No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.

Susan Wiggs

#3. Dried mud flats, sun-warmed, have a delicious touch, cushioned and smooth; so has long grass at morning, hot in the sun, but still cool and wet when the foot sinks into it, like food melting to a new flavour in the mouth. And a flower caught by the stalk between the toes is a small enchantment.

Nan Shepherd

#4. When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.

Jodhi May

#5. When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

Henry Miller

#6. In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Ross Perot

#7. My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Sandra Bullock

#8. Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

Jacob Grimm

#9. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

Katharine Hepburn

#10. When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

Luther Vandross

#11. I need to hold on to the faded love 'cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers

Munia Khan

#12. Ever since I was a little kid, the last thing I wanted to do was lose. I hated losing. I still hate it. I guess you can see that when I'm out there.

Tim Hudson

#13. You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

June Millington

#14. One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

Baltasar Gracian

#15. Answers that are not freely given aren't really answers at all.

Courtney Cole

#16. Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them

Munia Khan

#17. Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Stefan Kanfer

#19. It was too long ago; she couldn't recall the feelings of love, only remember that she'd had them. A dried-out memory, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book.

Sarah Painter

#20. Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.

Thomas Nelson Page

#21. When I'm with you, I don't feel like a monster. I forget. I forget all the things I've done that make me not deserve this.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Ken Burns