Quotes About Delicate Flowers

#1. I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.

Chelsea Cain

#2. 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

#3. It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. I'll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

Maria V. Snyder

#5. Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

Bayard Taylor

#6. Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.

Crystal Woods

#7. When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

M. Stanton Evans

#8. All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods

Gregory Benford

#9. It was strange to be outside on a summer's evening. Rachel breathed in the scent of the delicate white flowers on the star jasmine and looked up at the sky. She saw what at first she thought was a bird, then realised it was a bat, and beyond that, in the sky, she saw thousands of stars.

Mary Grand

#10. So beautiful but so bountiful.
So delicate but so fresh.
So magical but so simple.
So much to say but yet so silent.
So loving and so pleasant.
Oh, flowers of charming love,
You are life's joy and present.

Debasish Mridha

#11. The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

Jim McCrery

#12. Practice, the master of all things.

Augustus

#13. The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. 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

#15. For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

Thomas More

#16. gathering flowers so very delicate a girl

Sappho

#17. 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

#18. Friendship is like flowers;
beautiful but delicate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Probably, all these words would tumble out, these stupid, useless words I've been carrying everywhere like a bouquet of delicate, beautiful, stupid, useless flowers.

Daniel Jose Older

#20. 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

#21. Across the river were two clouds in your eyes; and my kisses floated ascend from the heights of the sacred mountain -
there in the valley, where uncrowned hope of green fields and saffron came from flowers - delicate reverberations of rock walls we listened to our words of love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#22. It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

Noel Coward