„I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
„My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide.
My kin don't need to fuss and moan —
"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone."
My body? — Oh! — If I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will.
Good luck to all of you. [Joe Hill]“
— Joe Hill, My Last Will http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Last_Will (1915-11-18)
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„Oh, call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone:
The summer comes with flower and bee,—
Where is my brother gone?“
— Felicia Hemans, The Child's First Grief
The Child's First Grief (1828).
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„Oh, I would while away the hours,
Wanking in the flowers, my heart all full of song,
I'd be gliding all the lilies as I waved about my willie,
If I only had a schlong.“
— Christopher Moore, book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
„You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.“
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
(15 September 1992), al'Lan Mandragoran to Nynaeve al'Meara
„T was ever thus from childhood’s hour!
My fondest hopes would not decay:
I never loved a tree or flower
Which was the first to fade away.“
— Charles Stuart Calverley British poet 1831 - 1884
Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
I ’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But ’t was the first to fade away.
- Thomas Moore, The Fire Worshippers, p. 26.
„I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.“
— Richard Brautigan American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935 - 1984
„From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.“
— Edvard Munch Norwegian painter and printmaker 1863 - 1944
after 1930, Quote in Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors (2007) by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30
„Oh would I were a boy again,
When life seemed formed of sunny years,
And all the heart then knew of pain
Was wept away in transient tears!
When every tale Hope whispered then,
My fancy deemed was only truth.
Oh, would that I could know again,
The happy visions of my youth.“
— Mark Lemon British magazine editor 1809 - 1870
Oh would I were a Boy again, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„I have discovered a goodness and decency in people as exhibited in all the letters, e-mails, flowers, gifts and prayers that have been directed my way. I am overwhelmed and humbled. I offer you my most sincere thanks and my deep and abiding gratitude. If I ever write my memoirs, I have some spellbinding material. How does the Joni Mitchell song go? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone"? One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!“
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
"Roger writes to readers" Chicago Sun Times (11 October 2006)
„Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.“
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
1900 - 1920, his remark, shortly after the death of his second wife Alice in 1911; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 76
„They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.“
— Orson Scott Card, book Lovelock
Lovelock (1994)
„A flower may fade before 'tis noon,
And I this day may lose my breath.“
— Isaac Watts English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674 - 1748
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715), Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
