Marigold quotes by topic: Marigolds features, Women and marigolds, Garden and marigolds, Flowers and marigolds, Sun and marigolds, Men and marigolds, Love and marigolds, Death and marigolds.
Marigolds features
Marigolds are flowers of hope. (Maya Angelou)
Marigolds are the tender ties that bind countless happy memories together. (Louis Philippe)
That’s the thing about marigolds, they’re all beautiful. (Kat Singleton)
Marigolds are the daisies of November. (Walter Savage Landor)
Open afresh your round of starry folds,
Ye ardent marigolds!
Dry up the moisture from your golden lids,
For great Apollo bids
That in these days your praises should be sung
On many harps, which he has lately strung; (John Keats)
Women and marigolds
I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. (Sappho)
The yellow marigold, a sort of small sunflower, has been the favorite “caprice” for bouquets de corsage . (M.E.W. Sherwood)
The White Linen Nurse’s mind was full of sumptuous, succulent marsh marigolds, and fluffy white shad-bush blossoms. (Eleanor Hallowell Abbott)
Then she plants in the pot a marigold, a flower that is thought to be fadeless. (James George Frazer)
Her gold hair fell on the wall of gold
Like the delicate gossamer tangles spun
On the burnished disk of the marigold,
Or the sun-flower turning to meet the sun. (Oscar Wilde)
Garden and marigolds
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Then flats of marigolds and petunias. Made of sterner stuff, I figured, their sort might survive my regime of horticultural neglect. (Kathy Reichs)
After all, there are such lucky ones
that in early autumn they sometimes
watch how marigolds burn,
bending over a damp bed! (Nikolay Aseev)
Flowers and marigolds
The noise of wheels crushing slowly through meadows of tall marigolds and asters, orchises and fragrant lilies. (Charles Kingsley)
All the other old-fashioned flowers, the marigolds, petunias, larkspurs, poppies, and hyacinths, are sending up their jets of tremulous loveliness. (Peter McArthur)
Down in the garden she saw marigolds and zinnias, late blooming pansies, mignonette, snapdragon and aster and heliotrope, larkspur… (Mary Johnston)
Sun and marigolds
On the golden bushes of marigolds the sun seemed to have forgotten its shine. (Anastasia Verbitskaya)
There are golden Marigolds for the sun we live by, and silver Daisies for the stars, and blue Forget-me-nots for summer skies. (Dion Clayton Calthrop)
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side. (Jean Ingelow)
Men and marigolds
Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. (William Shakespeare)
Also, the Maidens who looked through the windows
Through the yellow marigolds were not alien to him …
But everything turned gray, faded,
And the sight of the companion – also,
And, it’s true, other desires
overcame Him … (Alexander Blok)
Love and marigolds
But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for she knew there was lots of room for love, even if there was not much for great-aunties. (Joyce Lankester Brisley)
The marigold of memory
Shall fill our autumn then with glow;
Haply its bitterness will be
Sweeter than love of long ago. (Madison Julius Cawein)
Death and marigolds
Marigolds are the flowers that remind us of our mortality. (Mark Twain)
The marigolds herald autumn’s colors already
In their sun-shrine faces, iconographic
Floral worship of their distant deity – yet they
Die at the first touch of frost, unlike chrysanthemums,
The true flowers of fall. (Elizabeth Barrette)
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