Quotes on Flowers

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!

Author: Edward Abbey

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

Author: Lyman Abbott

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.

Author: James Allen

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.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Author: Henry Bates

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

Author: Henry Beecher

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

Author: Beau Bridges

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

Author: Ruth Brown

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"

Author: Delta Burke

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

Author: Chubby Checker

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

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

Author: Brian Clough

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

Author: Nicholas Culpeper

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

Author: Nicholas Culpeper

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.

Author: Ray Davies

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Author: Jean Fontaine

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.

Author: John Foxe

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

Author: Walter Hagen

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

Author: Augustus Hare

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

Author: Robert Heinlein

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.

Author: Jennifer Hewitt

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

Author: Ken Hill

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

Author: Lena Horne

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Author: Jean Ingelow

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.

Author: Helen Keller

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Author: Corita Kent

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

Author: Letitia Landon

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

Author: Lillie Langtry

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

Author: Lucretius

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

Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Author: Walter Mare

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Author: Andrew Marvell

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

Author: Henri Matisse

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

Author: Mercedes McCambridge

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

Author: A. Milne

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Author: Claude Monet

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

Author: Pablo Neruda

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

Author: Jean Paul

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.

Author: Al Purdy

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.

Author: Anne Rice

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

Author: John Ruskin

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

Author: Ikkyu Sojun

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.

Author: Sharon Stone

I like perfume and flowers.

Author: Donatella Versace

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

Author: Walt Whitman

Flowers are happy things.

Author: P. Wodehouse

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

Author: Mao Zedong

Roses may get all the attention, but don't forget the lilies - elegant and timeless in their own right.

Author: Jasmine Rowe

Sow seeds of kindness, and watch love bloom in abundance.

Author: Maya Patel

In the face of adversity, always remember to stand tall like a sunflower and bloom regardless of the storms.

Author: Lily Davis