I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me. – George Washington Carver
I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process. – Eckhart Tolle
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower. – Dorothea Dix
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. – Georgia O’Keeffe
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time. – Georgia O’Keeffe
I don’t always wear underwear. When I’m in the heat, especially, I can’t wear it. Like, if I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? – Naomi Campbell
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It’s also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies. – Edmund White
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. – Marcelene Cox
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. – Paul Cezanne
Sometimes people ask me, ‘You do stand-up?’ I try explaining what I do, and I don’t think they really get it. So: ‘Yeah, I do stand-up.’ I wish there was one word to express what I do – that way, I don’t sound arrogant. Whenever I say I’m a performer, people think I’m a performance artist: ‘She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.’ – Charlyne Yi
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. – Emma Stone
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. – Georgia O’Keeffe
The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple. – Pedro Almodovar
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text. – P. J. O’Rourke
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever. – Dorothea Dix
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can’t they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of ‘equality’ the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment. – John Ridley
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous. – Mary Quant
Government has to be cut back like asparagus… every day… or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there’s too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. – Paul Harvey
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. – James Russell Lowell
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. – John Lennon
My books are, in a way, a record of my life – that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind. – John Burroughs
I’ve never been the wilting flower. I’ve never been the girl who’s subservient to a man. – Leven Rambin
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring. – Kirsty Gallacher
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. – Lytton Strachey