Quotes About Peony

#1. Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.

Pearl S. Buck

#2. Irritation hardened in Cinder's gut. She might have pointed out that Pearl and Peony could have been given ready-made rather than custom dresses in order to budget for Cinder's as well. She might have pointed out that they would only wear their dresses one time too.

Marissa Meyer

#3. Prince Kai?" Peony spun toward her so fast, she tripped on the skirts of Adri's kimono and fell, screaming, onto her bed. "Who's Prince Kai?" she yelled, struggling to sit back up. "Only my future husband!

Marissa Meyer

#4. A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.

Kate Spade

#5. The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.( ... ) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

Robertson Davies

#6. No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

Hanya Yanagihara

#7. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

Miranda Kerr

#8. Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods ...

J.K. Rowling

#9. And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

Siegfried Sassoon

#10. I'm more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#11. I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.

Justina Chen

#12. The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

Mark Hart

#13. Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

Lenny Kravitz

#14. Devils and Nazis don't work well together.

China Mieville

#15. I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

Heather Mills

#16. Once lively peonies now
wind-weary, and ragged
at the edges, hang their heavy
crowns; rain on their backs,
one final act, before
detaching from the stem
and falling down.

Kristen Henderson

#17. She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar.

Mary Shelley

#18. I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

Ben Stiller

#19. I've never been more sure of anything in my life than I am of the fact that I love you and I can't stop loving you. I tried. God knows I tried, because I didn't think you'd ever be able to let me love you like I wanted to. But I failed, and now I love you even more than I did before.

Catherine Gayle

#20. I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.

Stephen Colbert

#21. I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.

Susan Carroll

#22. Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh.But he can turn on you.And get nasty and personal and vicious.

Ted Cruz

#23. Damen's the one who loves more. He'd do anything for you. You're just along for the ride.

Alyson Noel

#24. I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

Anthony Hopkins

#25. One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong.

Bohdi Sanders

#27. God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Paul David Washer