"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

Flowers, Man

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

Exlpore more Flowers quotes

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

Mercedes McCambridge, American Actress

Flowers, Play

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Flowers, Spring

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

Henri Matisse, French Artist

Flowers, Want

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Flowers,

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Flowers, Joy, Sun, Trees

"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader

Flowers,

"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

Beau Bridges, American Actor

Flowers, Garden

"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out."

Jennifer Love Hewitt, American Actress

Flowers, Fun, Romantic

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey, American Author

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, American Actress

Flowers, HusbFlowers, Nixon

Explore more quotes by Al Purdy

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

Flowers

38

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Flowers quotes

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

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out."

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

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

Explore more quotes by Al Purdy

"At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you."

"'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival."

"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid."

"I started writing when I was about thirteen."

"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."

"I don't think I do have a soul."

"I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense."

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."