“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Variant: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Source: The Kite Runner
On Jon Corzine's Budget (April 6, 2006); "The Corzine Budget: Same Old Tax and Spend ", Tom's Blog" (April 6, 2006) http://tomkean.com/today/index.cfm?e=user.about.blog&messageID=76.
“One day, when spring has gone and youth has fled,
The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.”
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 27
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
