Quotes About Flax

#1. Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships, that bringeth food from afar.

Stephen King

#2. There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

Judy Grahn

#4. I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Amy Bloom

#5. The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

J.G. Holland

#7. The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

Austin O'Malley

#8. If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

J.G. Holland

#9. Sometimes a girl needed breakfast that didn't involve flax or wheatgrass or organic free-range cruelty-free whole grains.

Chloe Neill

#10. If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!

Shel Silverstein

#11. Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Ernest Poole

#12. Houses, trees and fields of flax once flourished here. Summers had been blue with flowers. Now it was a shallow sea of stinking grey from end to end. And this is where you fought the war.

Timothy Findley

#13. Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Anonymous

#15. Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.

Marianne Moore

#16. I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.

Lauren Groff

#17. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

J.C. Ryle

#18. I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.

Kelly Brook

#19. Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.

Leon Trotsky

#20. Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

Amy Lee

#21. The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

Dean Smith

#22. If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.

Eric Schmidt