Flowers Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Flowers

Please enjoy these Flowers Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give thanks for the rain in your life
which waters the flowers of your soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
- Mao Tse-Tung

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers
where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers,
so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Bricks to all greenhouses!
Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers,
but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun

People from a planet without flowers would think we
must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch

Flowers always make people better, happier,
and more helpful; they are sunshine,
food and medicine for the soul.
- Luther Burbank

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers
when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

I take care of my flowers and my cats.
And enjoy food.
And that's living.
- Ursula Andress

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in
them and that is eternity.
- Edvard Munch

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -
and never succeeding.
- Gian Carlo Menotti

Flowers are without hope.
Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
- Thomas Moore

We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
- Eddie Cantor

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit,
who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,
and without light nothing flowers.
- May Sarton

True glory takes root, and even spreads;
all false pretences,
like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone,
but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner.
I like a man to be a gentleman.
I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless.
I like to be respected and to give respect.
- Sharon Stone

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown,
so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers
of humanity have developed and bloomed.
- James Allen

At my age flowers scare me.
- George Burns

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
but beauty faded has no second spring.
- Ambrose Philips

I named all my children after flowers.
There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
- Bert Williams

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive.
For man, or for flowers or beast or bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
- Al Purdy

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
- Thomas Tusser

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
- Gertrude Stein

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past,
what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
- Letitia Landon

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
- John Ruskin

What ye have been ye still shall be,
When we are dust the dust among,
O yellow flowers!
- Austin Dobson

I also like to garden.
I grow things, vegetables, flowers...
I particularly like orchids.
I raise orchids.
- Beau Bridges

Flowers grow out of dark moments.
- Corita Kent

I'm an introvert...
I love being by myself, love being outdoors,
love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees,
flowers, the sky.
- Audrey Hepburn

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house.
I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor,
and I would like all the flowers to be white.
- Anne Rice

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly,
waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,
sleeping in the cold night's arms.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
- Jean de La Fontaine

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
- Beverley Nichols

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country
life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and
getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
- Laurie Lee

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
- Lena Horne

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
- Walter de La Mare

I want my flowers while I'm alive.
- Chubby Checker

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace,
like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless
but all together perfume the air.
- Georges Bernanos

I like perfume and flowers.
- Donatella Versace

The ballet is a purely female thing;
it is a woman,
a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
- George Balanchine

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper
than models and they don't move.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until
Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
- Jim Sullivan

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go:
If things are going well,
I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things,
plan fun nights out.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt

It is with flowers as with moral qualities;
the bright are sometimes poisonous; but,
I believe, never the sweet.
- Augustus Hare

It's all about creation and surprise.
It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers.
You have to water flowers.
These peaks will come again.
- Sonny Rollins

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
- A. A. Milne

Flowers are happy things.
- P. G. Wodehouse

Flowers are restful to look at.
They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
- Sigmund Freud

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead.
If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
- Brian Clough

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing -
to walls and flowers.
You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes.
It's just put somewhere.
- Ray Davies

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
- Daniel D. Palmer

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad.
He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers.
He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
- Jennifer Aniston

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;
Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
- Gerald Massey

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter,
which stings in the very flowers.
- Lucretius

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