The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an i….

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own..

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her bre….

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, s….

The more we learn about flowers, the less silent they are..

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flow….

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and fl….

There's nothing I won't attempt..

Happiness is the natural flower of duty..

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing..

You have to take everything as it comes..

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!.

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden..

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it….

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how….

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. ….

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of li….

. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only ….

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..