Flower Quotations

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

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

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.

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

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

The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

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

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

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

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

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

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

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

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

Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

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

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

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.

Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

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.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...

I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

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.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent.

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

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

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, its important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

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

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

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