Flowers Quotes

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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

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.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

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

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

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.

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.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

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.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

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

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

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.

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.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.