#lower

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #lower




For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.


Cao Yu


#expected #fallen #flowers #like #new

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.


Katharine Hepburn


#flowers #life #death

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.


Sara Teasdale


#in-a-burying-ground #life #soul #death

But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.


Laini Taylor


#death #flower #hazael #humor #laini-taylor

For the Christ-follower,small spiritual adjustments make huge eternal differences.


Todd Stocker


#christianity #difference #eternal #inspirational #motivation

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.


Victor Hugo


#dreaming #flowers #gardens #les-miserables #thinking

Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep peaceful passion of a noble soul. This spring morning, the loveliness of the great city, the first wallflowers scenting her lap, had little by little melted her heart.


Émile Zola


#love #paris #wallflowers #dreams

The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong.


Daniel Keyes


#charlie #flowers-for-algernon #family

Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow’s sobriety.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #lower-class #poor #working-class

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!


Tina Fey


#flowers-for-algernon #humor #humor