Tulips

Tulips (Tulipa) are a kind of flower.

The tulip's petals shine in dew,
All beautiful, but none alike.

Quotes

• * You believe
  In God, for your part?—ay? that He who makes,
  Can make good things from ill things, best from worst,
  As men plant tulips upon dunghills when
  They wish them finest.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book II.

• We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
  • John Templeton, "The Quotable Sir John - On Life and Spirituality" at the Templeton Press.

• Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes,
  Bending beneath the invisible west-wind's sighs.
  • Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan".

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 822-23.

• And tulips, children love to stretch
  Their fingers down, to feel in each
  Its beauty's secret nearer.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Flower in a Letter.

• 'Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
  The wild tulip at end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
  Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.
  • Robert Browning, Up at a Villa, Down in the City, Stanza 6.

• The tulip is a courtly quean,
  Whom, therefore, I will shun.
  • Thomas Hood, Flowers.

• Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,
  Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,
  The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry
  Wheels out into the sunlight.
  • Amy Lowell, A Tulip Garden.

• Dutch tulips from their beds
  Flaunted their stately heads.
  • James Montgomery, The Adventure of a Star.

• Not one of Flora's brilliant race
  A form more perfect can display;
  Art could not feign more simple grace
  Nor Nature take a line away.
  • James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root.

• The tulip's petals shine in dew,
  All beautiful, but none alike.
  • James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root.