Lena Horne Quotes

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you like that, especially when it comes to looks. I could get into a car crash tomorrow and disfigure my face. So I have to stay grounded.

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

You're just grateful for every day, grateful for every game you get to play in because you never know when it's going to be taken from you.

It's always nice to get fresh flowers.

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

There's no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.

I guess it's about getting older. I know that I'm going to lose people that I love - I'm going to die myself - so everything seems to be getting somehow sweet and more important and more special and more humbling and more challenging and more terrifying all at the same time.