I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
Manny Pacquiao
FlowersConstructionClothesSewing
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Robert Bresson
LifeWaterFlowersBornLivingHead
I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
Jai Courtney
GreatRomanticFlowersFaceYouHer
I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There's no legislative authority; you're not elected. And that's a wonderful gift of freedom.
Michelle Obama
FreedomFlowersGiftDoingLadyYou
Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?
Isabella Bird
FlowerFlowersGraceIndividuality
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius
HeartFlowersBitternessFountainUs
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Francis of Assisi
MotherFlowersSisterYouEarthUs
We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
Josh Radnor
WaterFlowersAttentionWeedsLike
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
LifeFlowersShortWorryYouWay
In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.
Desiree Rogers
BusinessTimeFlowersStrategyYou
I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
Victoria Legrand
FlowersHairDressesWearFloat
I like perfume and flowers.
Donatella Versace
Valentine's DayFlowersPerfumeLike
I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
FlowersLanguageTraveledTwoYears
I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
Christopher Columbus
GreatFlowersMeWorldBelieveKnow
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
Saint Francis de Sales
FlowersBeeHoneyWayFreshWhole
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
Chubby Checker
FlowersAliveWantWhile
When I started Instagram, I kind of just did what I like to do or to show the things I like, whether it be sneakers or weird flowers, have the little drops of myself and my style kind of fluidly throughout. That was really helpful in starting and carving out my own place.
Paloma Elsesser
StyleMyselfFlowersWeirdSneakers
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Anne Rice
FlowersHouseWhiteMy OwnOutOwn
I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
Larry Wilcox
FutureChildrenFlowersAlwaysOur
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey Hepburn
LoveMyselfWalkSkyFlowersTrees
I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
Ina Garten
FlowersThinkLookTableSpecial
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman
EducationLoveResponsibilityFlowers
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Cao Yu
WorkWaitingFlowersBlossomNew
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
NatureMorningFlowersNightCold
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