Flowers Quotes

• Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

  

  Amrita Pritam
  • Peace
  • Violence
  • Flowers

• And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Blow
  • Flowers
  • Faint

• I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Flowers
  • Democrat
  • Remembered

• We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Spring
  • Winter
  • Vanishing

• The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows.

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Flowers
  • Diamond
  • Widows

• Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

  

  Abby May Alcott
  • Flowers
  • Crushed
  • Odour

• It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Tree
  • Flowers

• A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stars
  • Flowers

• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Flowers
  • Hieroglyphics

• People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.

  

  Red Skelton
  • People
  • Morning
  • Things

• In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

  

  Alda Merini
  • Moment
  • Write
  • Flowers

• A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Dream
  • Garden
  • Flowers

• So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.

  

  Cicely Mary Barker
  • Faces
  • Flowers
  • Raise

• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Destiny
  • Ambition
  • Sing

• I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers to be had by heat and constant coaxing, but then for each of these there are fifty others still lovelier that will gratefully grow in God's wholesome air and are blessed in return with a far greater intensity of scent and colour.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Women
  • Blessed
  • Gods

• I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Attention
  • Garden
  • Constant

• He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • God
  • Love
  • Fear

• Is love the sweetness of flowers?

  

  Helen Keller
  • Love
  • Flowers
  • Sweetness

• The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

  

  Nancy Milford
  • Horror
  • Flowers
  • Hats

• Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Best
  • Rose
  • Flowers

• This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Building
  • Doors
  • Delusions

• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sun
  • Flowers
  • Perfume

• God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Life
  • God
  • Crap

• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Silent
  • Brothers
  • Cover

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