Cereus Flower Quotes & Sayings

In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today? — Nicki Elson

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths. — Bernard Cornwell

You might be a redneck if you watch Little House on the Prairie for decorating tips. — Jeff Foxworthy

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Ego & Hype have no place in business. — Keshia Chante

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die. — Ferdinand Marcos

Sulfuric ether was sweet and hot, pungent and burning to the palate. It did not smell the least, to Nardi, of turpentine, but rather of large, white, oversweet flowers, fat, fleshy, prehistoric in their size and substance. He thought of these flowers as fringed, mouthed, and pistiled with sticky aroma, with pink-tipped, translucent styles and stigmas that moved in flower throats like beckoning fingers. Lush, languorously heavy, meltingly ephemeral, an indulgence to the New World tropics or an Old World greenhouse - something akin to night-blooming cereus. Ether, to him, was the nectar of such flowers, gathered and carried in the mouths of foot-long bumblebees, its aroma as old as Egypt, as modern as white walled hospitals, as personal and familiar as his own vague euphoric befuddlement. — Judy Cuevas

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it. — Arthur Miller

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened. — Marcel Carne

I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too. — John Seabrook

The way we order our time is dependent on the way we order our Sunday. — Pope Benedict XVI

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. — Tom Ford

And I think of the night-blooming cereus, a plant that looks like a leathery weed most of the year. But for one night each summer its flower opens to reveal silky white petals, which encircle yellow lacelike threads, and another whole flower like a tiny sea anemone within the outer flower. By morning, the flower has shriveled. One night of the year, as delicate and fleeting as a life in the universe. — Alan Lightman

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. — Douglas Coupland

She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be servant and helpmate to an Englishman many years her senior, for some reasons sat poorly with her. — Ben H. Winters