Single Flower Quotes

#1. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

Robert Jordan

#2. Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Virginia Woolf

#3. He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

Peter F. Hamilton

#4. There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

John Ruskin

#5. A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Anna Held

#6. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Gautama Buddha

#7. . . . she had always the power of suggesting things much lovelier than herself, as the perfume of a single flower may call up the whole sweetness of spring.

Willa Cather

#8. Sit down, Montag. Watch. Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh?' ... There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm.

Ray Bradbury

#9. It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

Howard Mumford Jones

#11. I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.

Kelsea Ballerini

#12. Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid, little frail things defying the dark with leaf and twig and fruit and flower.

Philip Pullman

#15. If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. When the first blooms came they were like the single big flower Oriental prostitutes wear on the sides of their heads ... But when the hemispheres of blossom appear in crowds they remind him of nothing so much as hats worn by cheap girls to church on Easter.

John Updike

#17. The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#18. Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

David Bowie

#19. All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

William E. Gladstone

#20. me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, once, that the memory of these evils should die with me; but you have won me to alter my determination.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#21. At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

P.C. Cast

#22. He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a single dead flower.

Holly Schindler

#23. One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Mark Twain

#25. Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain.

Yasunari Kawabata

#26. No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

Lorrie Moore

#27. The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

Elizabeth Fry

#28. Fate is but a dying wish ... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.

Youka Nitta

#29. People bring flowers and that's pretty memorable. I actually got a rose from one girl. She was so beautiful! I love all the screenings to be honest with you. I don't think I have gone to one single bad screening! Even if negative things happen, I turn it into positive reaction.

Tommy Wiseau

#30. No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation.
The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double,
but sevenfold;
they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

Delta Burke

#32. Poor soul, poor soul!' grandmother groaned. 'I'd like to think

Willa Cather

#33. God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#34. In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto