Lilies Quotes
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Lilies Quotes & Sayings
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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
— Bayard Taylor
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
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
— Julia Ward Howe
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
— Katharine Hepburn
The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.
— Helen Macdonald
In my gardenthe winds have beaten
the ripe lilies;
in my garden, the salt
has wilted the first flakes
of young narcissus. — Hilda Doolittle
I have desired to goWhere springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.
— William Wordsworth
Where did Gabriel get a lily,In the month of March,
When the green
Is hardly seen
On the early larch? — Grace James
Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
— William Carlos Williams
The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies.
— Emily Dickinson
Mary is the lily in God's garden.
— Bridget Of Sweden
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
— Christina Rossetti
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
White lilies, the kind you would give to a bride or a corpse.
— Kate Atkinson
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
— William Shakespeare
I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
— Andrew Marvell
Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!
— Katharine Tynan
There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
— Thomas Campion
My heart is a field of lilies blooming under a pane of glass, pitter-pattering to life like a rush of raindrops.
— Tahereh Mafi
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!
— Rumi
It's up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.
— David Levithan
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
— D.H. Lawrence
In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. — Christina Rossetti
Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.
— Ismail Kadare
The lilies say: Behold how wePreach without words of purity. — Christina Rossetti
You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)
— Inigo Garcia Ureta
For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them.
— Aldous Huxley
By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!
— Reginald Heber
Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.
— David Macbeth Moir
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
— Samuel Rutherford
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
— Charlaine Harris
Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
— Fernando Pessoa
Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
— W. Somerset Maugham
In writing terms, even lilies need to be gilded.
— Kevin Ansbro
Had it lived long, is would have beenLilies without, roses within. — Andrew Marvell
Look to the lilies how they grow!
— David Macbeth Moir
The only difference between lilies and turds is whatever difference humans have agreed upon; and I don't always agree.
— George Carlin
Death is only attractive in a fashionable dress, with lilies and an open coffin.
— Laura L. Sullivan
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
— Matthew McConaughey
We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!
— Gottfried Von Strassburg
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
— Anne Sexton
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
— Robert Browning
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother's garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
— Lauren DeStefano
Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls. — Sylvia Plath
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ...
— Hilda Doolittle
I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
— Francesca Lia Block
If you purify the pond, the lilies die
— William Stafford
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
— Francis Quarles
