Flowers Quotes
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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 -
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.
Kiersten White -
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
Hannah Whitall Smith -
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.
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde -
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 -
Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
William Shakespeare -
I've always thought my flowers had souls.
Myrtle Reed
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
Rudyard Kipling -
Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.
Hannah Hurnard -
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
Frederic Chopin -
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
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 -
I want to see little children adorning every home, as flowers adorn every meadow and every way-side. I want to see them welcomed to the homes they enter, to see their parents grow less and less selfish and more and more loving, because they have come. I want to see God's precious gifts accepted, not frowned upon and refused.
Elizabeth Prentiss -
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.
Anne Geddes
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Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?
Camille Henrot -
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.
Humphry Davy -
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
Dante Alighieri -
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa