Fragile Flower Quotes

#1. I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Donald Hall

#2. I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said: "I am a mystic and I believe in nothing".

Emil Cioran

#3. But hope is such a fragile flower in the rocky ground of my soul.

Donna Cooner

#4. The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

Kinky Friedman

#5. If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as a flower.

Stephen Abrams

#6. Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Ronald Reagan

#7. I don't mind ... the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

Estelle Ramey

#8. I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

Walt Disney

#9. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Paul Romer

#10. 'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

Tobin Bell

#11. 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

#12. Our hearts are bound together,' he said, 'and I am free to decide who I love. And what I want. Nothing - not the pressure of my family, or what anyone else thinks - matters.

Lee Monroe

#13. I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Hugh Laurie

#14. But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have.

Alexander Maksik

#15. Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Radhanath Swami

#16. I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Gene Weingarten

#17. "The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#18. Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.

Anthony Liccione

#19. I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

Hazel Ying Lee

#20. In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.

Moshe Katsav

#21. Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Rita Rudner

#22. Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,
which must be cautiously cared for
and protected,
from the harsh elements
of human weather.

ELLE NICOLAI

#23. I nod so much there's a nodding festival going on.

Cath Crowley

#24. How could I let this happen? How could I let it get this far? I never thought Malyn would have the same feelin's for me as I did for her. I'm dead, for goodness sakes. It's not like we can live happily ever after. I can't live at all.

Janae Mitchell

#25. The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Adrienne Rich

#26. You are full of cruelty and mockery," Kami said. "My heart breaks to think of the day I entrusted you with the fragile flower of my girlish friendship.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#27. Creativity is a fragile flower, but perhaps it can be fertilized with systematic doses of serendipity.

John Brockman