Quotes About Chrysanthemum

#1. I seek and don't find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

Christopher Paolini

#5. Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'
'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home ...

Sarah Waters

#6. Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.

Matsuo Basho

#7. I'm touched
by this chrysanthemum
it weathered the typhoon

Matsuo Basho

#8. Bay remembered the Waverley house full of pumpkin pie scents in the fall. There had been mountains of maple cakes with violets hidden inside, lakes of butternut soups with chrysanthemum petals floating on top.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

William J. Johnston

#10. I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

#11. Mums the Word [10w]
Chrysanthemum died to atone for our sins in the garden.

Beryl Dov

#12. It's daytime. A wall of billowing orange flame grows up silently from the tank farm a mile away, like a time-lapse chrysanthemum. It is so vast and complicated in its blooming, uncontrolled growth that Rife stops halfway up the stairs to watch.

Neal Stephenson

#13. The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

Joseph Campbell

#14. Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Niall Williams

#15. I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

Caitlin Kittredge

#16. would first meet Thomas Edison, Paul watched a man burn

Graham Moore

#17. Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Janette Rallison

#18. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Sophocles

#19. Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

Jeremy Corbyn

#20. Say it! No ideas but in things.

William Carlos Williams

#21. Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

John Donne

#22. Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,
which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

John Ruskin