Gautama Buddha Quotes, Flower Quotes, Water Quotes

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

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I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

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Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Weed Quotes , Flower Quotes

We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Girl Quotes , Flower Quotes

And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Flower Quotes , Feelings Quotes

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Flower Quotes , Cutting Quotes

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.

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O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Spring Quotes , Flower Quotes

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Flower Quotes , Men Quotes

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Flower Quotes , Heart Quotes

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Men Quotes

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

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A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Flower Quotes , Bud Quotes

The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Flower Quotes

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

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