Pluck Flower Quotes

#1. To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.

Anthony Bloom

#2. One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

#3. When you like a flower, you just pluck it.
But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Anyone can pluck a flower ... true strength is knowing how to give it life.

Aprilynne Pike

#5. That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

Seneca The Younger

#6. The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

Billy Tauzin

#7. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

James Russell Lowell

#8. The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

William Rounseville Alger

#9. I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.

Steven Herrick

#10. I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

Kate Williams

#11. So many times, we take things to heart and that eats us up, and we think it over and over again with work and our personal life. But most of the time, it is not personal. It may have nothing to do with you but, instead, what the other person is going through in their life.

Camila Alves

#12. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

Nikita Dudani

#14. She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Marquis De Sade

#15. The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Sophocles

#16. Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#17. Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Winter is not here yet. There's a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?

Emily Bronte

#19. We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

Loren Eiseley

#20. We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Paul Morley

#21. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

Karl Marx

#22. Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Aeschylus

#23. Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Ovid

#24. Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.

William Blake

#25. I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham

#27. 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

William Wordsworth

#28. Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#29. Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare

#30. When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul.

Victor Hugo

#31. You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.

D.H. Lawrence