Flower Quotes
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As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.
Celia Thaxter
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The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.
Russell M. Nelson
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Communism is the flower of idleness.
George Ticknor
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
Stephen Covey
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How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.
Caroline Anne Southey
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
William Cullen Bryant
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Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
Eudora Welty
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How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!
Thomas Hood
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
Ray Bradbury
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Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.
Nirmala Srivastava
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How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.
Sara Teasdale
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Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?
Emperor Wu of Han
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
Vita Sackville-West