Quotes About Cut Flowers

#1. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

#2. Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.

Pete Townshend

#3. A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

Bertrand Russell

#4. We cut flowers because we think they're pretty, we cut ourselves because we think we're not.

Melanie Martinez

#5. Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.

Oscar De La Renta

#6. Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

Joel Salatin

#7. I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#8. Bright cut flowers, leaves of green, bring about what I have seen

Amy Brecount White

#9. They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring ...

Pablo Neruda

#10. Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.

Barry Lyga

#11. To give away flowers you have to literally cut off their life supply: 'Here you go, it's pretty now but it's rapidly dying and will decompose before your eyes.' It's like giving someone a pet fish without the bowl.

Jules Cassard

#12. Tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they're cut.

Sarah Jio

#13. 'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Susanna Moore

#14. Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

Boris Kodjoe

#15. There's a home for you here at North Hill, you know that, and my wife joins me in begging you to stay. Plenty to do, you know, plenty to do. There are flowers to be cut for the house, and letters to write, and the children to scold.

Daphne Du Maurier

#16. Yesterday is ever jealous of ... tomorrow.

Khalil Gibran

#17. People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

Helen Prejean

#18. And Mom doesn't like anyone cutting her flowers, so I cut up her magazines instead. Do you like it?

Ryan Loveless

#19. A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

Michael Chabon

#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. I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Michael Palin

#22. He was a son of a bitch, too. He played ball in school, and had those fancy-cut muscles the young men have these days. They look real nice, but to me they're like flowers grown in a hothouse that would die if you planted them out in the real world.

Jordan Harper

#23. A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were a little boy.' It went straight to my heart, and I kissed him whenever I saw him after that, and my sons and I always kiss whenever we meet.

Terry Wogan

#24. I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cut
the stems and placed them gently down my throat.
And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightest
hopes.

Saul Williams

#25. You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

#26. It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened.

Sherwood Anderson

#27. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

Rene Crevel

#28. You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared!

Auliq Ice

#29. It is hard going to the door
cut so small in the wall where
the vision which echoes loneliness
brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Creeley

#30. You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

Barack Obama

#31. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?

Daniel Keyes