Flowers Quotes

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Give thanks for the rain in your life
which waters the flowers of your soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
- Thomas Moore

I take care of my flowers and my cats.
And enjoy food.
And that's living.
- Ursula Andress

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in
them and that is eternity.
- Edvard Munch

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers,
so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Bricks to all greenhouses!
Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey

Flowers always make people better, happier,
and more helpful; they are sunshine,
food and medicine for the soul.
- Luther Burbank

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -
and never succeeding.
- Gian Carlo Menotti

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers
when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers
where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
- Eddie Cantor

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers,
but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit,
who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,
and without light nothing flowers.
- May Sarton

People from a planet without flowers would think we
must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet

Flowers are without hope.
Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
- Mao Tse-Tung

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone,
but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther

We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa

Her face betokened all things dear and good,
The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep,
and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts,
like flowers would drift away.
- Jean Ingelow

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.
- Samuel Rutherford

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
- Jean de La Fontaine

I named all my children after flowers.
There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
- Bert Williams

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country
life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and
getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
- Laurie Lee

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books,
I live without envy.
- Lope de Vega

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give
a sense of quiet in a crowded day -
like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers,
but for the wide world's joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers,
but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
- Cao Yu

True glory takes root, and even spreads;
all false pretences,
like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants
are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history
will always be coming full circle.
- Francis Cabot Lowell

A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet:
there's always one determined to face in an opposite
direction from the way the arranger desires.
- Marcelene Cox

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
- Lena Horne

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until
Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
- Jim Sullivan

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
- Chanakya

At my age flowers scare me.
- George Burns

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers,
as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The advice I am giving always to all my students is
above all to study the music profoundly...
music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands,
very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
- Andres Segovia

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house.
I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor,
and I would like all the flowers to be white.
- Anne Rice

Sell the public flowers...
things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
- Robert Mapplethorpe

True education flowers at the point when delight falls
in love with responsibility.
- Philip Pullman

Flowers are happy things.
- P. G. Wodehouse

I abhor a hoe.
I am fond of flowers but not of dirt,
and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
- Lyman Abbott

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper
than models and they don't move.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the
odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
- Ethel Waters

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
but beauty faded has no second spring.
- Ambrose Philips

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
- Daniel D. Palmer

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
- Isaac Watts

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools
of thought contend is the policy for promoting the
progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
- Mao Zedong

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet
of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
- Lucretius

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly,
waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,
sleeping in the cold night's arms.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

If the English language made any sense,
lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
- Doug Larson

The ballet is a purely female thing;
it is a woman,
a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
- George Balanchine

Let a hundred flowers bloom.
- Mao Zedong

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises
a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
- Lucretius

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go:
If things are going well,
I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things,
plan fun nights out.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt

Flowers are restful to look at.
They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
- Sigmund Freud

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers
and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep,
left there to dream of their happiness.
- Conor Oberst

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything
from flowers to television sets to motor cars.
Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back,
but always extremely interested in how things work.
- Craig Johnston

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor,
and so ought the Flowers also.
- Nicholas Culpeper

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but
her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
- Bette Davis

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