The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.
Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.
