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  • America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

    Flower   America   Needs  
    "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.today.com. August 22, 2005.
  • Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.

    Flower   Men   Two  
    Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
  • This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

  • What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

    Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.44, Vintage
  • Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

    Ocean   Flower   Echoes  
  • I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

    Flower   Scent   Produce  
    Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.406, MIRA
  • This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

    Lonely   Flower   Earth  
  • Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

    Faith   Flower   Weather  
    "The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words".
  • Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

  • I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

    Country   Flower   Book  
  • Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

    Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”
  • Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

  • Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

    Flower   Voice   Office  
    Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
  • My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

    Wise   Sweet   Art  
  • I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had Passed over many a time. An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate, Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished, As much as if it had a thousand acres Of untrodden space around it, and never Knew the danger it incurred. It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an Evil fate by apprehending it.

    Life   Horse   Flower  
    "The Heart of Thoreau's Journals".
  • You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

    Flower   Alive   Like You  
    James C. Dobson (1992). “Preparing for Adolescence: Advice from One of America's Foremost Family Psychologists on how to Survive the Coming Years of Change”, Tyndale House Pub
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