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.
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
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.
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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.
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.
Trust is like a vase. . once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.
Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
