Flowers Quotes

• Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Heart
  • May
  • Bloom

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

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Flowers
  • Waters
  • Fruits

• When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.

  

  Rumi
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Roses

• Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Read
  • Flowers
  • Runs

• Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Done
  • Think
  • Mistake

• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Garden
  • Rose
  • Selfish

• I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

  

  George Eliot
  • Flowers
  • Thin

• Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

  

  Emilie du Chatelet
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Flowers

• I never used to be into flowers and stuff like that but I do it for my wife all the time now, I'm really soppy with her.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Wife
  • Flowers
  • Soppy

• You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Silence
  • Flowers
  • Thorns

• Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

  

  John Milton
  • Rose
  • Flowers
  • Thorn

• Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Die
  • Flowers
  • Pleasures

• We like to use a mixture of flowers, particularly if the dress is hard to match.

  

  Angie Brown
  • Dress
  • Flowers
  • Mixture

• The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Singing
  • Garden
  • Birds

• I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

  

  Rico Rodriguez
  • Girls
  • Flowers
  • Poems

• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Opinion
  • Resist
  • Shield

• What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sound
  • Flowers
  • Utter

• He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Loves
  • Hunts
  • Weeds

• Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Hearts
  • Details
  • Chest

• Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Fly
  • Sing
  • Butterflies

• A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Flowers
  • Good Name
  • Ointment

• A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Truth
  • Gift
  • Submission

• The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Spring
  • Flowers
  • Glowing

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