Lilies Quotes - Page 12

• So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

  Franz Liszt

  Father, Air, Taught Us

  Franz Liszt, Marie Sayn-Wittgenstein Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (Prinzessin zu) (1953). “The letters of Franz Liszt to Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein”

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• Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

  Michael Parenti

  Weasels, Democrat, Collaborators

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• I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all the prostitues of Memphis. This gal, she needs some wings, and a good song can make that happen.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Doors, Smell

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.278, Courier Dover Publications

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• Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Two, Giving

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• ... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

  Mary McCarthy

  Easter, Prayer, Latin

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• Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Baby, Morning

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
  For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
  The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
  Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

  Allen Tate

  Weed, Good Man, Plot

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.204, Macmillan

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• I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Horse, Winning, Race

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace,
  The fox in the forest, all had their desire,
  As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

  Ruth Pitter

  Nature, Grace, Desire

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Knowing, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.19, A&C Black

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• ...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal

  Christopher Moore

  Girlfriend, Abby, Way

  Christopher Moore (2009). “You Suck”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons.

  George S. Patton

  Waiting, Democracy, World

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• I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

  Anton Chekhov

  Attractive, My Own

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• Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Children, Food

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• A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Weed, Envy, Water

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.64, A&C Black

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• The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, War, Jealous

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Moon, Blue

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Purpose, Enough, Human Life

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 12, 2014

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• Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Perfect, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Simple

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• Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.

  Tom Robbins

  New Orleans, Two, Earth

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.141, Bantam

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