Quotes about Fragility

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!