25 Quotes About Orchids
- Author Lisa Jey Davis
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You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this "thing.
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- Author Melody Lee
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Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.
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- Author Lisa Jey Davis
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I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes.
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- Author Lisa Jey Davis
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When I was suddenly thrust into what everyone calls menopause (Orchids) earlier than my body planned, I decided someone needed to take charge on so many levels. It was time to not only change the vernacular, but to speak up and say "Hey! This isn't an old lady's disease! We aren't old! We are strong and dammit, we are beautiful and sexy too!
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- Author Jack Kerouac
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And there's my poor endeavoring human desk at which I sit so often during the day, facing south, the papers and pencils and the coffee cup with sprigs of alpine fir and a weird orchid of the heights wiltable in one day– My Beechnut gum, my tobacco pouch, dusts, pitiful pulp magazines I have to read, view south to all those snowy majesties– The waiting is long.On Starvation Ridgelittle sticksAre trying to grow.
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- Author Ellen Read
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Orchids?” Here I go again, repeating every word but this time I smiled. Orchids. Now that sounded better. More like my first impression.
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- Author Margot Berwin
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Plant MoneyMarijuana can go for thousands of dollars an ounce. In fact, as of 2006, it was the number-one cash crop in the United States, averaging thirty billion dollars a year.Saffron from Iran is the next-most-expensive plant, as it takes seventy-five thousand flowers to make one pound of the popular spice. Orchids, on the other hand, tend to elude the laws of supply and demand and are priced much more like paintings or sculpture, their value being in the eye of a particular collector.
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- Author Sanober Khan
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Scatter as a prayerescaping my lips...as orchidsblooming in clouds.
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