Anne Lamott Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

  Anne Lamott

  Spring, Flower, Eye

• I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Gratitude, Flower

• My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Flower, Eye

• You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Children, Flower

• The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

  Anne Lamott

  Flower, Ordinary, World

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Penguin

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