Top 29 Quotes About Milkweed: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Milkweed

#1. The wild roses were wide open and brilliant, the blue-eyed grass was in purple flower, and the silvery milkweed was just coming on.

Willa Cather

#2. Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Toni Morrison

#3. I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one

Annie Dillard

#4. The box opens and the razors slide out, whisper sweet.
Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. thought much of women; their grace and beauty, blooming like lotus flowers, floating like milkweed on the wind.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Although it is undoubtedly true man was created by God;
it is just as true that man was "made" by Satan."
The Milkweed Prophesy; Epitaph of the Apocalypse

Milkweed L. Augustine

#7. Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems.

Stephen King

#9. I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.

Julie Klassen

#10. In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

Gautama Buddha

#11. It pays to be a fee fiend.

Suze Orman

#12. He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'
I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'
'Inside.'
It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

Jerry Spinelli

#13. Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

#14. In my case dust has become Gold

A.R. Rahman

#15. It wasn't just that he was breathtakingly handsome with perfect features. Which he was. But there was something else, too.

K.F. Breene

#16. I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me.

Kenny Dalglish

#17. Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.

Milkweed L. Augustine

#18. Dealing with evil was something only the Lord could do, and in His timing He most certainly would deal with it.

Karen Kingsbury

#19. This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Jerry Spinelli

#20. There is absolutely no way someone cannot be affected, or cannnot learn vital lessons by being forced to dwell in the margins of a hindering repose as the one loved by so very few.
Dying and Loving It

Milkweed L. Augustine

#21. Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

Jerry Spinelli

#22. Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.

Greg Bear

#23. There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.

Francois Hollande

#24. In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore