Top 32 I Am A Delicate Flower Quotes
#1. Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
Edward Thomas
#2. Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?"
Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No."
"I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat.
"He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#4. What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
Camille Paglia
#5. Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It's hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it, she observed quietly.- Polly from Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper
#6. He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.
Ivo Andric
#7. Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,
which must be cautiously cared for
and protected,
from the harsh elements
of human weather.
ELLE NICOLAI
#8. Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#9. Think they're going to forget that?"
"You asked my opinion. Don't like it? Go fuck yourself."
"You're such a delicate flower, Annie. How'd you end up NASA's director of media relations?"
"Beats the fuck out of me," Annie said.
Andy Weir
#10. Conservationists who want to cosset nature like a delicate flower, to protect it from the threat of alien species, are the ethnic cleansers of nature, neutralizing the forces that they should be promoting.
Fred Pearce
#11. The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.
Nadia Hashimi
#12. The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.
George Stillman Hillard
#13. America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.
Noel Gallagher
#14. The soul is a delicate flower; love makes it bloom, and fear makes it wither.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!
Katherine Mansfield
#16. Love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
George Sand
#17. A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#18. The Spring is here
the delicate footed May,
With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers,
And with it comes a thirst to be away.
In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#19. 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
#20. How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
Jules Renard
#21. Love is an exotic; it is not a plant which will flourish naturally in human soil, it must be watered from above. Love to Jesus is a flower of a delicate nature, and if it received no nourishment but that which could be drawn from the rock of our hearts it would soon wither.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. I abhor violence. How many times do I have to say it? I am a delicate. Freakn'. Flower!
Eve Langlais
#23. The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
Elizabeth Fry
#24. So, over the course of the last year, I've seen Lola blossom from a delicate flower into a durable weed!
Belle Aurora
#25. Mother used to say, "Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery." Mother
Kerri Maniscalco
#26. Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.
Kerri Maniscalco
#28. Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.
George Stigler
#29. You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
James Dobson
#30. I've moved before I realize I'm going to, and suddenly Stephanie is in my arms and I'm carrying my fake girlfriend through the Upper West Side as she mutters threats in my ear, and even though my delicate little flower is cursing up a storm, I find myself grinning.
Lauren Layne
#31. If the delicate flower liked to play Medusa, maybe Karina could take on the role of Perseus. It was really for the good of all womankind that she slay the gorgon.
Lexi Blake
#32. Do you want to buy a bloody flower or don't ye?
Aye. As a matter of fact I'll take the whole soddin' bunch.
Aye well, good. It's time you treated m'Ma better.
Oh, they're not for your Ma, son. These are for you.See because I'm gonnae ram them doon y'delicate bloody Karma hole!
Ian Pattison
