Quotes About Geraniums

#1. My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.

William H Gass

#2. It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

Louis MacNeice

#3. Men are like that. They're like geraniums. When they look as if they're ready to be tossed into the bin they revive.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.

Ursula Hegi

#5. What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Theodore Parker

#6. I didn't understand the purpose of the seeds, but it was comforting to know that in a dire emergency I could hit people with my ukulele while Meg planted geraniums.

Rick Riordan

#7. Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

Beverley Nichols

#8. Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

Victoria Glendinning

#9. Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin of relief spread over his face. That she did not see because her eyes had filled with tears. And the geraniums, they were just as sad. In any case, that's how they smelled.

Wolfgang Borchert

#10. You haven't been planting seeds of insurrection, have you, Duchess?"
"Well, it's a change from planting geraniums," she retorted.

Dorothy Gilman

#11. Huge containers of red and pink geraniums were placed on each step and window boxes full of pink and lavender flowers lined the porch railings.

J.A. Whiting

#12. She thought, if we stay here, soon enough it will be you sitting at the table and me, I don't know, cooking something, and the snow flying, and the old man so glad we're here he'll be off in his study praying about it. And geraniums in the window. Red ones.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Jerry Stiller

#14. She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.

Nick Bantock

#15. The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:
I suppose all these people know better than I.
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

A.A. Milne

#16. If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.

Bobby Bowden

#17. God damn the geraniums! ... It was like trying to screw during an aerial attack.

Charles Bukowski

#18. We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Pete Sessions

#19. Make scented geranium cream-Leaves steamed in cream, cream cheese and sugar. When cool-Eat with berries or poached peaches.

Sara Midda

#20. Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

Euginia Herlihy

#22. I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

Liberty Ross

#23. I'M HAVING THE THOUGHT THAT . . .

Russ Harris

#24. Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

Laurie Halse Anderson