Quotes About Wilting

#1. Here's my problem. On Valentine's Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.

David Letterman

#2. When she had first held Jacob in her arms and pressed her lips to his tender, fragile scalp, it had felt as though she were being brought back to life, like a wilting plant being watered.

Liane Moriarty

#3. Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.

Judith Martin

#4. Take of your shirt,"he said.
But I hadn't won Ethan Sullivan-and he hadn't won me-by my playing the wilting lily to his alpha predator.I lifted my head.
"I am not your possession."
"Aren't you?"
At my refusal,he moved forward and gripped the hem of my shirt.

Chloe Neill

#5. I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

Scott Thompson

#6. The last begonias wilting in the chalet's hanging baskets laced the air with a lemon and cinnamon fragrance.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#7. Roses are wilting, Violets are dead,
The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head.

WeeKittyAndTAT

#8. Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.

Thomm Quackenbush

#9. National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

Corazon Aquino

#10. How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness. Page 204

Chetan Bhagat

#11. What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

Michael Leunig

#12. I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats.

Rachel Caine

#13. I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

Leven Rambin

#14. A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

R.J. Gonzales

#15. Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

Jack Dangermond

#16. Dried out and curled up in a ball, me, I am like tea. Waiting to be immersed. Willing to unfold. Wanting to unfurl. Wailing silently to be exposed. Whimpering till that day. It seems I'm wilting and withering away.

Dharlene Marie Fahl

#17. Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins.
Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

Jessica Sorensen

#18. Despite his best efforts, a few scalding tears escaped Cobalt's eyes. He swiped them away. 'Can you stand?'
'I damn well can, if my alternative's you holding me like a wilting female.'

S.W. Vaughn

#19. He was the color of a hydrangea before it blooms, wilting like one too, every inch of him sunken and bruised.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#20. I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

Sandra Bernhard

#21. He looks like the rich-boy villain in an '80s teen movie - the one who bullies the sensitive misfit, the one who will end up with a pie in the puss, the whipped cream wilting his upturned collar as everyone in the cafeteria cheers.

Gillian Flynn

#22. A Washington summer is a physical being: a shaggy, slobbering beast; relentless, inescapable, forever panting its heavy, humid breath into the face of each citizen and pushing its weight against the wilting populace, demanding attention-a constant, unwelcome companion.

Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

#23. Oh, I was so not a wilting flower. I'd let a man pick me up and carry me because I couldn't handle the price of using magic when I was dead. Again.

Devon Monk

#24. It was a wilting July evening

Nancy Horan

#25. he could feel his hope wilting.

Anthony Doerr

#26. One of my missions was to teach.

Paul Prudhomme

#27. I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Andrew Wyeth

#28. The only way I can be safe is to try to find the Grail

Glenn Cooper

#29. if you feel sick just be sick. if you love someone just tell them.

Chris Simpsons Artist

#30. Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)

Stephen Bezruchka

#31. Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Zephyr Teachout

#32. I would never betray a friend. So who the hell cares if somebody betrayed you once, huh?!! I'm not like that!

Bossun Sket Dance

#33. Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.

Crystal Woods

#34. All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

Jack Kirby

#35. In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

Angela Ahrendts