Flowers Quotes
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
Amrita Pritam
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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
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
Charlotte Bronte
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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
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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
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Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
Abby May Alcott
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
Alexandre Dumas
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows.
Barbara Wood
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Victor Hugo
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So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.
Cicely Mary Barker
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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.
Victor Hugo
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
Helen Keller
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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
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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus
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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.
Alda Merini
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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
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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
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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Bill Porter
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
Carlos Santana Santana