#buds

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ↗

— Andrew Marvell

#flowers #gather #spare

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#anniversaries #buds #burst #day #dozen

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#buds #father #i #italian #mother

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand? ↗

— Emma Willard

#aware #beginning #buds #daughters #defective

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#life

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#buds #depends #great #just #like

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#buds #february #leaves #sunshine #swells

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#about #all day #away #breeze #buds

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. ↗

— Max Muller

#buds #empty #first #first time #germs