Flowers Quotes
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No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
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The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.
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No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.
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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.
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
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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.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.
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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.
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Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
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Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
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If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
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God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
