There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before. . . to test your limits. . . to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.
You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.
The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.
There buds the promise of celestial worth.
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.
