Lilies Quotes

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.

The calla lilies are in bloom again.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily.

Mary is the lily in God's garden.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Look to the lilies how they grow!

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.