Flower Quotes

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

Celia Thaxter
- Musician
- Poet
- Lovers
How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

Caroline Anne Southey
- Death
- Earth
- Dies

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

Scott Thompson
- Flower
- Bridges
- Fights
There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

Nathaniel Parker Willis
- World
- Heart
- Simple
Communism is the flower of idleness.

George Ticknor
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?

George Fordyce
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
- Children
- Book
- Soul