#flower

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#eternal #example #flower #life #poetry

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #brown #eyes #find #flower

London, thou art the flower of cities all! ↗

— William Dunbar

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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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It is still my dream to own a little flower shop. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#flower #little #own #shop #still

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

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