Bud Quotes

• Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fades

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• A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Flower, Waiting, World

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

  Rajneesh

  God, Letting Go, Flower

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• A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

  Paulo Coelho

  Flower, Process, Stage

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.40, Booklassic

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• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Tests

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• Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Moments, Spares

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.115, Pearson Education

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• Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Spring, Garden, Springtime

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• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

  Christopher Fry

  Hysteria, One Day, Calm

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.20, Oberon Books

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• Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Rose, Free Spirit, Rose Buds

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• The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Flower, May

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.34

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• Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spring, Jewels, Looks

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• I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Dark, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The bud of victory is always in the truth.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Presidential, Victory

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• While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

  James Montgomery

  Rose, Hue, Shows

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.358

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• Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Sailing, Elements

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• Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
  The eating canter dwells, so eating love
  Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

  William Shakespeare

  Decay, Eating, Finest

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Song, Sleep, Breathing

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

  Emily Dickinson

  Wind, Sea, Water

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Writing, Giving

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Rose, Stills

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 1, l. 476

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• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Rain, Animal

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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