Picking Flowers Quotes

• Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Death   Buddhist   Flower  

  1843

• I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

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  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Nature   Flower   Blooming  

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

  2564

• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Flower   Simple   Garden  

  2131

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Love   Inspirational   Life  

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

  2092

• Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

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  e. e. cummings

  Bullying   Sorry   Flower  

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

  1232

• At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

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  Sara Sheridan

  Mother   Children   Kindness  

  2768

• If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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  Rajneesh

  Love   Wise   Spiritual  

  5134

• The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.

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  Zora Neale Hurston

  Morning   Flower   Air  

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

  1355

• The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower   Silly   Book  

  905