One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

I'm loving the ingredients that are in Pantene, and it smells so good, and that's important to me. It has cassia and aloe vera. The cassia flower is really good for strengthening hair strands and the aloe is wonderful for moisturizing.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

I think 'Apricot Princess' actually came out before 'Flower Boy.'

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.