Flower Quotes
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Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.
Eleanor Farjeon
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
A. E. Hotchner
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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.
Francis Thompson
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Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .
Pablo Casals
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An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
Kim Ki-duk
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.
Lurlene McDaniel
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The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.
Daniel Handler
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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
Donna Karan
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There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.
Sandra Cisneros
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I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
Betty Parsons
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Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
E. W. Howe
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She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
John Dryden
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The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.
Emma Stone
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That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.'
George Harrison
The Beatles
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
Hari Kunzru
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It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.
Edwin Markham
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It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
Beverley Nichols
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
Malcolm de Chazal
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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
Kirsty Gallacher
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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
Don Miguel Ruiz
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People think that painting is about colorIt's mostly compositionIt's composition that's the whole thingThe classic image-Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image,one empty – the empty form goes all the way to heavenIt is the classic form – lighter weight.
Agnes Martin
