Top 100 Quotes About Flora
#1. Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
Stella Gibbons
#2. Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.
Claire Fuller
#3. I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Flora Lewis
#4. The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#5. The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
Flora Thompson
#6. Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
Flora Thompson
#7. Taking Flora to his room, rather than any other, amounted to a public declaration of his intentions. She was his, and he was saying as much.
Lachlan didn't give a damn what anyone thought, he wanted her with him. It was as simple as that.
Monica McCarty
#8. Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
Of which some days I with design have past;
A part in April and a part in May
Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
And as the confines of two months are thine
To sing of both the double task be mine.
Ovid
#9. I worship nature. The moon and the tides. The sun and the stars. The energies that surround us and dwell within us. The esoteric knowledge of our natural world and its flora and fauna.
Dacha Avelin
#10. That's what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. Remember after every autumn, the flora senses the rapturous kiss of cheerful spring.
(Book-Love Vs Destiny)
Atul Purohit
#12. Lachie slaps his arms around his body and hugs himself when he comes out of the water that's thick with the spaghetti of dark, leathery seaweed.
"Does it not try to drag you down to the bottom?" I say.
"No, sure it's like being stroked by mermaids" says Lachie.
Flora Kennedy
#13. Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? -
Flora Thompson
#14. Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.
Flora Kidd
#15. Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.
Stella Gibbons
#16. A good quote is the nectar of a gallon of wisdom squeezed into an eight ounce glass. Johnny Flora
Johnny Flora
#18. I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.
Flora Roberts
#19. Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones
Johnny Flora
#20. Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
Mary Ellen Flora
#21. No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin
Flora Thompson
#22. Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author.. reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.
Flora Thompson
#23. He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#24. Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.
Flora Thompson
#25. An interesting survival of mediaeval superstition," commented Flora.
Stella Gibbons
#27. You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#28. Flora hated the phrase "correct me if I'm wrong." In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.
Kate DiCamillo
#29. Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#30. There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.
Flora Thompson
#31. The Woman is the Proletarian of the Proletariat
Flora Tristan
#32. Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#34. Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.
Flora Thompson
#35. All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it. There is not much doubt that when she worked herself into full mermaid condition, she did actually believe whatever she said in it.
Charles Dickens
#36. It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They
Kate DiCamillo
#37. What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
Flora Thompson
#38. We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
Flora Lewis
#39. When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten.
Flora Thompson
#40. Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?
Flora Kidd
#42. So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.. Colour gives way to form. every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.. new vistas obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.
Flora Thompson
#43. [Rangers] discover the truth though it is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Ysbeau Wilace
#44. The trouble about Mr Mybug was that ordinary subjects, which are not usually associated with sex even by our best minds, did suggest sex to Mr Mybug, and he pointed them out and made comparisons and asked Flora what she thought about it all.
Stella Gibbons
#45. True happiness is the contentment of soul, and the joy of inner heart.
Flora D.
#46. You knock yourself down. You don't think much of yourself. That's an uncomfortable feeling. So you project it on others and say, 'They don't like me.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#47. Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Flora Lewis
#48. Character and Plot ... Character and Plot
Some writers have it and some do not
This I'll tell you Brother
You can't have one without the other
Johnny Flora
#49. I don't determine the singles. I believe the record company sends a bunch of CDs out to people that they trust in the business, and wait for their response to determine which songs will become singles.
Flora Purim
#50. Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.
We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster
Rainbowbrook
#51. Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Flora Lewis
#52. I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures."
Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.
Chris Kurtz
#55. Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!
Joss Whedon
#57. You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
Flora Thompson
#58. This malfeasance must be stopped, said Flora in a deep and superheroic voice.
Kate DiCamillo
#59. That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.
Stella Gibbons
#60. For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.
Henry Louis Gates
#61. The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.
Flora Thompson
#64. Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.
Flora Thompson
#65. I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#66. I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#67. Bhutan was the first nation to establish a permanent fund to finance the long-term protection of its native and rare flora and fauna.
Eric Dinerstein
#68. To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not
Kate DiCamillo
#69. You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.
Stephen King
#70. Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
Alison Lurie
#71. After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence:
"I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute."
It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply.
Stella Gibbons
#72. The Laird of Coll was undoubtedly a hard man. He didn't smile often, but when he did, it was as if the sun broke through the clouds. And he was smiling right now as she considered his question, knowing very well that she was enjoying herself.
Monica McCarty
#74. It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Flora Thompson
#75. Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.
Kate DiCamillo
#76. Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light
Shone over hill and dale
When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed
Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle.
Heart as pure as forest lily
Never knowing guile,
Had its home within the bosom
Of sweet Lily Lyle.
Flora Thompson
#77. Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#78. Happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.
Flora Thompson
#79. A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.
Flora Robson
#81. It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.
Flora Thompson
#82. Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
Flora Lewis
#83. Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.
Ilana Mercer
#84. I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#85. Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.
Laline Paull
#86. Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
Thomas Starr King
#87. I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
Jack Dorsey
#88. Your inner voice and the spiritual guidance...will lead you to your goal.
Mary Ellen Flora
#89. Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon" > quotable quote (edit)
"Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing."
- Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon
Johnny Flora
#90. Richard had realized, not that Elfine was beautiful, but that he loved Elfine. (Young men frequently need this fact pointing out to them, as Flora knew by observing the antics of her friends.)
Stella Gibbons
#91. There's always something or someone to do.'But don't you ever find it too much work, Howard?' asks Flora, 'All this dressing and undressing, all these undistinguished climaxes, all this chasing for more of the same, is it really, really, worth the effort?'Of course' [ ... ].
Malcolm Bradbury
#92. I pretended that lying frozen on the ground wasn't pure terror at work, that it was an actual plan versus being entirely too frightened to move.
Flora Dare
#93. Every breath of air and ray of sunshine,
All ingenuous thoughts and creativity,
Every dried up drop of blood from battle
And the movement of every living creature through the winds of eternity have been exhausted to bring you to this very moment in time ... Do something with it.
Johnny Flora
#94. Flora had once told her that 'Friendship is God's way of apologising for our families'.
A.J. Waines
#95. I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
Jacqueline Bisset
#96. Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
Claire Danes
#97. Do not hope; instead, observe were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.
Kate DiCamillo
#98. Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.
Flora Thompson
#99. Flora threw herself forward at the signal, and the men standing nearby cheered. Two of them ran alongside for a few steps, waving their hats. "Go, pig! Pull, pig!
Chris Kurtz
#100. it is a pleasure, a kind of mild masochism, to have all the beautiful things belong to someone you love and none to yourself.
Fletcher Flora
