#flower

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

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#candles #doing #expensive #flowers #focal

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#across #ask #come #flower #i

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#chinatown #deliver #every #florist #flowers

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #flower #grow #i #i always

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#educate #flowers #good #good way #i

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#flowers #hang #public #sell #their

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#animate #clouds #crystal #every #existence

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#been #die #dressing #dressing room #enough