Flowers May Wither Quotes

#1. If our minds are like a garden, then emotions are like the different flowers that bloom and wither in it all year round, according to the season. Emotions sometimes bring dynamism and significant change to our lives, but we must never be led around by them.

Ilchi Lee

#2. I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.

Elena Ferrante

#3. The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.

Alan Keyes

#4. Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

Laura Wasser

#5. Many seeds had fallen in the stony places of his spirit, to spring luxuriantly up into stalky plants and wither again because they had no deepness of earth; many had been sown there and had died, since his mother scattered the seeds of the wild flowers

Aldous Huxley

#6. Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

Timothy Joshua

#7. Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose,

Paul Auster

#9. The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Love ... is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

Edna O'Brien

#11. I certainly didn't look like a gangster, but I had a gangster mentality. Gangsters only care about themselves and theirs.

Piper Kerman

#12. Flowers are born, and they wither ...

Shaka

#13. You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

Milton H. Erickson

#14. Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

Christina Dodd

#15. With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

Jason Gedrick

#16. The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Barack Obama

#17. Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

Christina Rossetti

#18. Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Samuel Rutherford

#19. Evidently, my judgment was so off, the only men I wanted were the ones who would treat me like shit.

Lauren Stewart

#20. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

Oscar Wilde

#21. If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America ... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Ernestine Rose

#22. I believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.

Lynda Barry

#23. Flowers too wither and fall,
but they inspire one and all!

Avijeet Das

#24. Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Charles Mingus

#25. Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade.

Frederick Lenz

#26. The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd - the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

Reginald Heber

#27. Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

George Santayana

#28. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.

W.B.Yeats

#29. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich