Pink Flower Petals

Famous quotes containing the words pink, flower and/or petals:

    “The word “conservative” is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.”
    —Norman Tebbit (b. 1931)

    “This queen will live. Nature awakes,
    A warmth breathes out of her. She hath not been
    Entranced above five hours. See how she ‘gins
    To blow into life’s flower again.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The sun that leaps on petals through a nought,
    The come a-cropper rider of the flower.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)