#lowers

I want my flowers while I'm alive. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#flowers #i #want #while

I don't want followers. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#i #want

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues. ↗

— Robert Cray

#anything #better #blues #could #flowers

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #back #democrat #flowers #hall

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#feature #flowers #high #love #low

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. ↗

— Thomas Tusser

#flowers #may #showers #spring #sweet

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#education #flowers-for-algernon #intelligence #education

On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- that the devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Of course the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-and how our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve done the devilʼs work for him. ↗

— Ed Galisewski

#christian #christians #church #devil #faith

Flowers and fear are a lot alike. For one, flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two, I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#flowers #funny #grow #smell #funny