Flowers Quotes

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.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

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

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

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

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

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.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

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

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

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.