Quotes & Sayings About Snapdragons

I went to the Conservatory, studying piano and singing, up to high school - but I only did four years because I then had to start working, and the jobs were so good that I didn't stop. — Elena Roger

Everyone is born beautiful, some people just let the world turn them into something ugly. — Wiz Khalifa

I remember one woman making paper flowers to sell, with different herbs ... She made them so fast, and so many ... that as I watched, her first few zinnias became quickly enough a few hundred, and grew in their happiness to the size of sunflowers. The sunflowers themselves grew to the size of pumpkins, the snapdragons grew ominous, and the rosemary fragrant. — Alberto Alvaro Rios

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles. — Mervyn Peake

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country. — Richard Perle

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way; — Mark Twain

The earth has a mouth?" Buckley asked.
A big round mouth but with no lips," my father said.
Jack," my mother said, laughing, "stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons? — Alice Sebold

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white. — Stuart Pearce

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Wild geese fly south, creaking like anguished hinges; along the riverbank the candles of the sumacs burn dull red. It's the first week of October. Season of woolen garments taken out of mothballs; of nocturnal mists and dew and slippery front steps, and late-blooming slugs; of snapdragons having one last fling; of those frilly ornamental pink-and-purple cabbages that never used to exist, but are all over everywhere now. — Margaret Atwood

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame

This is what happens: somebody - girl usually - got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again ... Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home ... But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time. — John Green