If instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root and in that freedom bold.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine freedom and a little flower.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine freedom and a little flower.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles which are expensive.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful they are sunshine food and medicine for the soul.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

My experience with both my parents is that grief has a lot of down sad things but I was also really emotionally raw in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely my relationships were hotter and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I have made bouquets of pleats bouquets of flowers bouquets of ruffles bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline held tightly around the waist and with something else going on all around.

I think gardens are fantastic and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it and natural and beautiful.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works but each one launches another. Every constraint even dullness frees up a new design.

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

When I listen to music I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

From my rotting body flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Men do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back but always extremely interested in how things work.

You know maybe I was just born in the wrong time but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

One way or another we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life and dedicate ourselves to that.