Flower Wreath Hill

Famous quotes containing the words flower, wreath and/or hill:

    “A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “And before, with banner red,
    Through the blizzard snow unseen,
    All unharmed by hail of lead,
    With a step like snow so light,
    Showered in myriad pearls of snow.
    Crowned in wreath of roses white,
    Christ leads onward as they go.”
    —Alexander Blok (1880–1921)

    “headland beyond stormy headland plunging like dolphins through the
    gray sea-smoke
    Into pale sea, look west at the hill of water: it is half the
    planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
    Eyeball of water,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)