Azaleas Flowers Quotes & Sayings

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination. — Fredric Jameson

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world - - the cowboy songs of Texas and the West - - are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie

Sugar had grown up in Charleston, South Carolina: possibly the most luscious of the world's garden cities. Behind every wrought-iron gate or exposed-brick wall in the picturesque peninsula blooming between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers lay a sweet-scented treasure trove of camellias, roses, gardenias, magnolias, tea olives, azaleas and jasmine, everywhere, jasmine.
With its lush greenery, opulent vines, sumptuous hedgerows and candy-colored window boxes, it was no wonder the city's native sons and daughters believed it to be the most beautiful place on earth.
In her first years of exile Sugar had tried to cultivate a reminder of the luxuriant garden delights she had left behind, struggling in sometimes hostile elements to train reluctant honeysuckle and sulky sweet potato vines or nurture creeping jenny and autumn stonecrop. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

And, like all the best quests, in the end, I did it all for a girl: me. — Caitlin Moran

Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand. — Bohdi Sanders

What you up to, Isaac? They're so egalitarian ... well ... Their society's all based on maximizing choice for the individual, which is why they're communistic. Grants the most uninhibited choice to everyone. And as far as I remember the only crime they have is depriving another garuda of choice. And then it's exacerbated or mollified depending on whether they do it with or without respect, which they absolutely love ... — China Mieville

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once? Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was. — Donna McDonald

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. — Swami Vivekananda

Fill your office with plants and flowers. Spider plants and plants with hairy leaves absorb air pollutants (such as formaldehyde), produce oxygen, and add color to ease you eyes. Chrysanthemums, azaleas, and Gerbera daisies are similarly helpful. — Lewis Harrison

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us. — Alphonsus Liguori

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. — Samuel Johnson

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place ... It is certainly part of my life of prayer. — Thomas Merton