It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women that every soul is to be cherished that every flower Is to bloom.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

People deal too much with the negative with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Having contemplated this admirable grove I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river and though it was now late in December the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

I mean we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York that this city would be stopped totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you and that you will work them water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom till you yourself burst into bloom.

If you listen to Giuliani it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Worry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms but which will bloom most constantly?

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

I met Elijah Wood once I met Peter Jackson I met Orlando Bloom and they're all really cool.

Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Writers may be disreputable incorrigible early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I'll tell you there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.