“It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

“He was a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed.”

“Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.”

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.”

“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.”

“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”

“Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.”

“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”

“When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.”

“There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.”