Flower Picking Quotes

#1. I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.

Robert Frost

#2. Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Gautama Buddha

#3. To you, it was just picking flowers. To them, it was a massacre.

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#4. Would yell if a person didn't coo and aww and tell her what a beautiful mother she would make and how her daughter would surely grow up to be just like her, by all the lucky stars.

Marissa Meyer

#5. Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It's a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed - but until then it makes him dangerous.

Jim Butcher

#6. High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity - even among the college-educated.

Daphne Koller

#7. If only the peace I feel right now
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.

Margarita Engle

#8. We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually

Alain De Botton

#9. If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Ralph Nader

#10. Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

Gary Zukav

#11. It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

Julie London

#12. Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.

Hal Elrod

#13. Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton