Quotes About Lily Flowers

#1. There were nearly as many frogs in the shallows, where lily pads floated. Some water lily flowers were white and some were yellow and some were the palest pink. Dragonflies darted above the water, their iridescent wings catching the glint of the sunlight.

Alice Hoffman

#2. I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#3. He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

Sun Tzu

#4. I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#5. She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better.

Anna Quindlen

#6. He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

Seneca The Younger

#7. I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet.

Thomas Hood

#8. I haven't much time for sanity

Jason Bourne

#9. Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily ... and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works. - Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19

Douai-Rheims Bible

#10. Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Thomas Bernhard

#11. Salander was up at 5:00 the next morning and hacked into the NSF Major Research Instrumentation supercomputer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology - she needed all the mathematical skills she could muster.

David Lagercrantz

#12. May you love blossom like a lily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. It's faith that will take you through and determination that will drive you.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#14. It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.

Evan Spiegel

#15. Set not your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#16. Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.

Virginia Woolf

#17. When people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew ...

John Geddes

#18. In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

Lewis Carroll

#19. Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

Ridley Scott

#20. No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

Peter Drucker

#21. Gnats drifted on the same warm summer breeze that saw colorful paper lanterns swaying on their strings. Lily of the valley filled jam jars at each table, but sweet peas had won out in the battle to fragrance the evening air.

Anouska Knight

#22. I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness.

Rachel Hawthorne

#23. They had much discussion upon the question whether marriage was a prejudice or a crime, and whether men were born equal or not, and precisely what individuality consists in. Things

Ivan Turgenev