Flowers Quotes
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
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
Robert Mapplethorpe
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
Mercedes McCambridge
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
Cokie Roberts
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
Ken Hill
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Ernestine L. Rose
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
Austin Dobson
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
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
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