Songbirds Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Songbirds

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

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

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic.
In Brazil they throw flowers at you.
In Argentina they throw themselves.
- Marlene Dietrich

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools
of thought contend is the policy for promoting the
progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
- Mao Zedong

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
- Lincoln Steffens

At my age flowers scare me.
- George Burns

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers,
Fruits, and Roots.
- Nicholas Culpeper

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

I work with language.
I love the flowers of afterthought.
- Bernard Malamud

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

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

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
- Chanakya

A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen

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

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers,
but for the wide world's joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

Flowers grow out of dark moments.
- Corita Kent

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

Flowers are happy things.
- P. G. Wodehouse

If the English language made any sense,
lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
- Doug Larson

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

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

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars,
too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
- Jeremy Bentham

I don't like painting flowers in my music.
I like painting guts and pain.
- Jonathan Davis

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

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

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers
and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep,
left there to dream of their happiness.
- Conor Oberst

We grow like flowers, and bear desire,
The odor of the human flowers.
- Richard H. Stoddard

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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
- Matsuo Basho

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

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
- Pablo Neruda

When the Christians, upon these occasions,
received martyrdom, they were ornamented,
and crowned with garlands of flowers;
for which they,
in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
- John Foxe

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet
of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
- Lucretius

Let your children be as so many flowers,
borrowed from God.
If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
- Samuel Rutherford

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers.
I like death and destruction.
- Jonathan Davis

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers,
as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the
odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
- Ethel Waters

I hardly have any spare time!
But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
- Soundarya

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
- Thomas Tusser

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

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet:
there's always one determined to face in an opposite
direction from the way the arranger desires.
- Marcelene Cox

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

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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie