Plastic Flowers Quotes

• Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

  Anthony de Mello

  Flower, Looks, Alive

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.101, Image

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• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

  Henri Matisse

  Positive, Beautiful, Art

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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  You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  Walter Hagen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

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• A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Flower, Empty Rooms, Desert

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• She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

  Anne Ursu

  Nice, Flower, Plastic

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• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

  Gertrude Stein

  Flower, Literature, Faded

  Title of story (written 1930)

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  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspiring, Hope, Spring

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• Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening it is gone. Nobody can say when it will disappear, when the petals will start falling. Just a strong wind and it is no more, just a strong sun and it is no more. But the plastic flower will be there; come rain, come sun, come anything, the plastic flower will be there. In fact, plastic is the only permanent thing in the world.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Strong

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• Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Flower, Heart

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Dog, Flower

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• I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Flower, People, Landscape

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• The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

  Dov Davidoff

  Flower, Entertainment, Plastic

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• I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

  Bai Ling

  Flower, Guy, Expensive

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Flower, Want

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• If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain - that you will not be yourself. And then follows the next thing: you can never be a buddha, because you are you and a buddha is buddha. If you try to become a buddha, you cannot be a buddha; at the most you can be an imitation - a plastic flower, not a real rose.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Real, Flower

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• The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

  Galway Kinnell

  Flower, Thinking, Glasses

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• I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

  Ariel Sharon

  Flower, Political, Born

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!

  Peter Cook

  Flower, Bangs, Burgers

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Children, Flower

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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