One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.

I started the seed in a flat in June and set out the little pansies in a cold frame.

I am not one of your fashionable pansies like Auden or Spender, I was six months in Spain, most of the time fighting, I have a bullet hole in me at present and I am not going to write blah about defending democracy or gallant little anybody ..."

The most beautiful bed of pansies I've seen was in a South Dakota yard on a sizzling day.

Because of selective human breeding, most garden pansies bloom the first year, some in as little as nine weeks after sowing.

In New York, pansies have been colloquially referred to as " football flowers " for reasons unknown.

Smart proposes “ Were it not for thee, oh sun ,/ Those pansies, that reclining from the bank / View through the immaculate, pellucid stream ,/ Their portraiture in the inverted Heaven ,/ Might as well change their triple boast, the white ,/ The purple, and the gold ”.

In Hamlet, Ophelia distributes flowers with the remark, " There's pansies, that's for thoughts " ( IV. 5 ).

It is the progenitor of the cultivated pansy, and is therefore sometimes called wild pansy ; before the cultivated pansies were developed, " pansy " was an alternative name for the wild form.

Long before cultivated pansies were released into the trade in 1839, V. tricolor was associated with thought in the " language of flowers ", often by its alternative name of pansy ( from the French " pensée "-thought ): hence Ophelia's often quoted line in Shakespeare's Hamlet, " There's pansies, that's for thoughts ".

Nelson Rockefeller ( the " Rockefeller 5 "), a zap at the Marriage License Bureau demanding marriage rights for gays, a zap against Fidelifacts, which provided anti-gay information to employers, a zap at the NYC Taxi Commission ( which required gay cab drivers to get an OK from a psychiatrist before being employed ), and a zap at the New York Daily News, which printed a scurrilous editorial attacking " queers, lezzies, pansies, call them what you will.

William Boulton won prizes at the 1844 Toronto Horticultural Society Show for geraniums, roses, greenhouse plants and pansies.

The garden is a hotspot for butterflies and also features primulas, pansies and palm trees, as well as being home to a national collection of digitalis.

Like strawberries in December, pansies are far more exciting in February than in May.

In colder zones, pansies may not survive without snow cover or protection ( mulch ) from extreme cold or periods of freezing and thawing.

Don't miss the pansies that appear from time to time through the winter.

In warmer climates, zones 9-11, pansies can bloom over the winter, and are often planted in the fall.

The gardens include Abelia, Althaea, Amaryllis, azaleas, bachelor's button, begonias, berrying hollies, Caladium, Calendula, camellias, candytuft, chrysanthemums, crape-myrtles, daffodils, daylilies, dogwood, flowering maple, flowering quince, geraniums, Grancy graybeard, Hibiscus, Hosta, hydrangea, Impatiens, irises, Japanese magnolia, jessamine, lantana, Liriope, Lycoris, marigolds, mock-orange, nandina, pansies, Pentas, periwinkles, petunias, Phlox, Poinsettia, Pyracantha, redbud, Salvia, snapdragons, sasanqua, Scilla, shrimp plant, magnolias, Spathiphyllum, Spiraea, star bush, sweet alyssum, sweet olive, tulips, and winter honeysuckle.

Nothing is easier to grow from seed than pansies.

Many people think that pansies last only a few weeks, then their period of growth and bloom is over.

In 1812, she introduced her pansies to the horticultural world, and, in 1813, Mr. Lee, a well-known florist and nurseryman, further cultivated the flower.

By 1833, there were 400 named pansies available to gardeners who once considered its progenitor, heartsease, a weed.

In warmer zones, pansies may re-seed themselves and return the next year.

Aphids, which can spread the cucumber mosaic virus, sometimes feed on pansies.

J. J. Grandville created a fantasy flower called Pensée in his Fleurs Animées, and the 1953 Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland featured a chorus of singing pansies in the Garden of Live Flowers scene.

In 1858, the writer James Shirley Hibberd wrote that the French custom of giving a bride a bouquet of pansies ( thoughts ) and marigolds ( cares ) symbolized the woes of domestic life rather than marital bliss.

Originally pansies would have been very fragrant, growing wild in fields and forests.

It was said that people would trample the grass completely in eagerness to pick pansies.

* PansyFlowers. com information about pansies

I place His precepts and His leadings above every seeming probability, dismissing cherished convictions and holding the wisdom of man as folly when opposed to Him.

Never, except in romances, have I seen spouses more worthy to be cherished, more tender fathers, passionate lovers, purer or more magnanimous patriots, than I have seen in hospitals for the insane, in their intervals of reasonableness and calm ; a man of sensibility may go there any day and take pleasure in scenes of compassion and tenderness ".

In an article he wrote for Life magazine, Williams discussed why he chose her for the part :" Anna and I had both cherished the dream that her appearance in the part I created for her in The Fugitive Kind would be her greatest triumph to date ... he is simply a rare being who seems to have about her a little lightning-shot cloud all her own ....

He was never wearied in urging the necessity of mutual toleration between Calvinists and Lutherans, and to the last cherished the hope of a great Protestant federation, so that, with this end in view, he cultivated friendly relations with French Protestants and with Elizabeth I of England.

The crowning moment of the march was Dr. King's famous " I Have a Dream " speech in which he articulated the hopes and aspirations of the Civil Rights Movement and rooted it in two cherished gospels — the Old Testament and the unfulfilled promise of the American creed.

Cherish it as I have cherished it.

John Luerssen of Allmusic gave it three and a half stars out of five, remarking that " Nothing with You " " revisit the timeless lovelorn attack of cherished songs from their past like ' Wendy ,' ' Clean Sheets ,' and ' Silly Girl, while Merican " " harks back to vintage Bad Religion " and " I Quit " is " a nervous, edgy ' Catalina '- like throwback ".

He served as chancellor for King Gustav I Vasa and cherished by Laurentius Petri, the Archbishop, because they shared a strong Lutheran faith.

In February 2009 The Guardian jazz critic John Fordham reviewed Atzmon's newest album In loving memory of America which was described by Atzmon as " a memory of America I had cherished in my mind for many years ".

I told him about my long cherished ambition of at last giving myself entirely to the orphan boys of Villa Nazareth.

The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus wrote to her: " For a long time I have cherished all the many excellent gifts that God bestowed upon you ; prudence worthy of a philosopher ; chastity ; moderation ; piety ; an invincible strength of soul, and a marvelous contempt for all the vanities of this world.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

We spoke of the need for advertising, and I agreed that the deep dive would be most useful for publicity.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Asked which institution most needs correction, I would say the corporation as it exists in America today.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

For innocence, of all the graces of the spirit, is I believe the one most to be prayed for.

`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.

This is the most delightful trial I have ever had '', she decided.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

`` I thank you most heartily for being here.

I did not feel it presumptuous to expect that the Creator would be at least as just as the most righteous of His creatures ; ;

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

Never once during the trying thirties did I come so close to succumbing to the private climate of opinion as to grant Russian communism even that most weasel-worded of encomiums `` an interesting experiment ''.

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;

the combination of the Jewish intellectual tradition and the sensibility needed to be a writer created in my circle the most potent and incredible intellectual-literary ambition I have ever seen or could ever have imagined.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.