Flowers Quotes

• I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Funny
  • Humorous
  • Dressing

• 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

• Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Birth
  • Flowers
  • Karma

• 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

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

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • God
  • Love
  • Fear

• 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

• Petunias are as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Dress
  • Flowers
  • Chiffon

• 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

• People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Musicians
  • Flowers

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Flowers
  • Hieroglyphics

• For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Gay
  • Flowers
  • April

• 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
  • Creating
  • Flowers
  • Proust

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stars
  • Flowers

• The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Flowers
  • Vigor
  • Herbs

• Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

  

  Cicely Mary Barker
  • Perfect
  • Beauty
  • 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

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

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Tree
  • Flowers

• 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

• The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

  

  Anne Geddes
  • Season
  • Photograph
  • Flowers

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

  

  Cicely Mary Barker
  • Faces
  • Flowers
  • Raise

• If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Flowers
  • Sheep
  • Thorns

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

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Flowers
  • Diamond
  • Widows

• Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Flowers
  • Village
  • Damaging

• What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Man
  • Painting
  • Flowers

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