Quotes About Hyacinths

#1. Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

#2. Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

Sharon Creech

#3. If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from they slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Attributed to the Gulistan of Moslih Eddin Saadi

Hazel Felleman

#4. People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Eudora Welty

#5. I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

Kirsty Gallacher

#6. The smell of hyacinths in the summer night air. At this moment, standing here with a boy I just met who already feels like home, I am overwhelmed with city love.

Susane Colasanti

#7. If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

Herodotus

#8. If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.

Mohammad

#9. The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

James Lee Burke

#10. We say
This changes and that changes. Thus the constant
Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths
Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause
In a universe of inconstancy.

Wallace Stevens

#11. If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#12. Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

James Montgomery

#13. Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

Tracy Morgan

#14. Revolution must take place within one's own mind.

Lionel Suggs

#15. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

#16. Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they
infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with
ghosts hovering around her.

Yolanda A. Reid

#17. Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs; make it memorable; make an impact! Leave a legacy!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

Amy Ray

#19. The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Jane: Focus is important.
V: Only if you're a microscope.

J.R. Ward

#21. Depressives cannot surrender childhood
not even the pains of childhood.

Saul Bellow

#22. Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

Homer

#23. Oh aye, ye canna beat a good wake," said Rob Anybody. "Wi' lots o' boozin' an' dancin' an' greetin' an feastin' an' boozin'.

Terry Pratchett

#24. I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Friedrich St. Florian

#25. The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted-
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#26. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Amos Bronson Alcott