Flower Quotations | Page 3

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

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

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.

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.

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

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

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

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

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

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!

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

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.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

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

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

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.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.