Famous quotes containing the words white and/or flowers:
“Joseph and his mother come from the
black kings who were before the white man.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)
“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)