Plastic Flowers Quotes

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening it is gone. Nobody can say when it will disappear, when the petals will start falling. Just a strong wind and it is no more, just a strong sun and it is no more. But the plastic flower will be there; come rain, come sun, come anything, the plastic flower will be there. In fact, plastic is the only permanent thing in the world.

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain - that you will not be yourself. And then follows the next thing: you can never be a buddha, because you are you and a buddha is buddha. If you try to become a buddha, you cannot be a buddha; at the most you can be an imitation - a plastic flower, not a real rose.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!