Blossom Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (B) Quotes

Strangely enough I`m better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

- Hugh Grant

I didn`t really blossom until my mid teens and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular

- Eva Longoria

The age I`m at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

- Liv Tyler

I`m most grateful to have had that joyous time in motion pictures. It really was a Golden Age of Hollywood. Pictures were talking, they were singing, they were coloring. It was beginning to blossom out: bud and blossom were both present.

- Ginger Rogers

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

- Akira Kurosawa

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anaïs Nin

Now I am happy I did `Gone With the Wind.` I wasn`t when I was 28, but it`s part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time.

- Butterfly McQueen

I invite any sort of myths (about myself) because I like the stooges and doppelgangers and doubles out there. I feel protected behind all these things. Let them blossom! I do not plant them, I do not throw out the seeds. I advise you to read Herzog on Herzog because there you see a few clarifications.

- Werner Herzog

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

- Mao Zedong

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

- Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

- Theodore Dreiser

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

- E.Y. Harburg

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life`s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

- Alexandra Starr

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

- Andre Van Heerden

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

- Andres Nocioni

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.

- Anice Sexton

We have watered the trees that blossom in the summer-time. Now let`s sprinkle those whose flowering time is past. That will be the better deed, because we shall not be working for the reward.

- Aniela Orr

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven`s own blue. . . .

- Ann Snyder

It really helps (teachers) blossom as opposed to making it from day to day.

- Barbara Angerstein

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anaïs Nin

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

"I wouldn`t say it`s been that tough, but it`s enough to make me seriously consider retiring. It`s the intensity of it. I did a ten-man fight sequence recently, and we did the whole thing over a hundred times. Kable`s a warrior, but he`s not fancy and he`s using full force and brutality to kill ten guys. And in the middle of that fight I`m getting smashed, I`m falling all over the place, I`m pounding guys. And, I had to do it time and time again. That`s where, in some ways I blossom, because when my backs up against the wall, that`s when I really turn it on. It`s that 300 mentality."

- Gerard Butler