Lilies Quotations

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

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

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

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.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

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

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.

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

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal

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

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

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.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

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

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

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.

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

My best friend is Lily Aldridge. Her daughter's my godchild.

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

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

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

You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master.

For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was in far more danger than she could ever be.

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.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

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.

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

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

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

It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

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

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

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.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

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

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.

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

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The calla lilies are in bloom again.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

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