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  • I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

    Together   Cracks   Vases  
    Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
  • alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

    Wall   Fate   Men  
    Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”
  • Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

    Nature   Flower   Garden  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127
  • The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

    Beautiful   Men   Squares  
  • If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

    Flower   Water   Cost  
  • It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

    Hate   Fire   Vases  
    Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
  • "Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

  • Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

    Life   Hate   Hands  
  • Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

  • It's not about the way you look It's not about your face It's all about the way you think It's all about your grace You're love is like a power chase You're like an oak tree growing in a flower vase

  • Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

    "Andrej Pejic On Lea T.: ‘I Think I Cover More Fields’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.
  • Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

    Vases   Murder   Alleys  
    On the moving of murder mysteries from the English country house to more realistic areas. Quoted in Contemporary Authors (1979).
  • But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

    Perfect   Vases   Owners  
    "The Persian Boy". Book by Mary Renault, p. 29, 1972.
  • A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

    Children   Fire   Vases  
  • You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

    Girl   Running   Pain  
  • We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

    Flower   Vases   Might  
    Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.22, Da Capo Press
  • Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

    Cat   Animal   Humanity  
  • If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?

    Glasses   Water   Desire  
  • But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

    Ambition   Clouds   Looks  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 21
  • He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

    Skills   Broken   Lovely  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
  • If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

    Flower   Vases   Rooms  
    "The Fault In Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, archive.org. 2012.
  • Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.

    Space   Vases  
    Setareh Cinema, Volume 4, 1973.
  • Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

    Hurt   Heart   Broken  
  • I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

    Flower   Soul   Ornaments  
    Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.134, Profile Books
  • The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

    Smile   Flower   Laughing  
  • Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.

    Wise   Dream   Children  
  • Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

    Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.20, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley
  • Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

    Together   Pieces   Vases  
  • Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

    Party   Flower   Thinking  
    Source: www.popsugar.com
  • Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

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