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Flowers quotes
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Of what are you afraid my child?” inquired the kindly teacher. “Oh sir! the flowers they are wild ” replied the timid creature.
— Peter Newell
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
We are the flowers that make up the Creator’s vast and beautiful garden.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.They’re things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.
— Alberto Caeiro
And then I feel the sun itselfas it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire –clearly I’m not needed, yet I feel myself turninginto something of inexplicable value.-from The Buddha’s Last Instruction
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
Always try to live in a wonderful world where the sun is always shining, flowers are always blooming, birds are always singing, and you are always busy with a joyful life.
— Debasish Mridha
Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.
— Sean Ferrer
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.
— Osunsakin Adewale
I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday
— Leigh Byrne
Let us be the flowers of love and let us spread the beauty of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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.
— Craig Johnston
I hear he liked flowers pretty well.””Yes, ” said Annie, “he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him.”–“Out, Brief Candle
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThough leaves are many, the root is one, Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
— W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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
I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
The flowers like me back.
— John H. Carroll, Rojuun
Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
An excellent wine, someone’s best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.
— Letitia Baldrige
Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…
— David Nicholls, One Day
Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life
Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”?
— Norman Douglas
I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.
— Avijeet Das
Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today
— Joyce Chapman
Be a tree of love and let it bloom with flowers of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
— Ray Bradbury
I thought he knew me better than most…Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he’d picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.
— Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever
— Mo Yan, Red Sorghum
You are one of the most beautiful and unique flowers in the garden of humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.
— Graham Greene
He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
— Henry Van Dyke
What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?
— Peter Ackroyd
If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful
— Gregory Hill, Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.
— Gustave Flaubert
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
For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth.
— Bible
Plant the trees just for beauty, If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.
— Debasish Mridha
The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!
— Thomas Hood
You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
— Robert Jordan, Starscape Boxed Set B Mixed
For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.
— Bryn Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal
Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.
— Allison Pearson
I don’t like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
— Jonathan Davis
Love and let flowers of peace bloom.
— Debasish Mridha
At my age flowers scare me.
— George Burns
keep love in your heart. A life without is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead …
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.
— Debasish Mridha
Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
— Ursula Andress
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.
— Sharon Stone
I can’t recall the sound of your voiceStill, I bring flowers and meet the skyask it to hold me, too.
— Drew Myron
Love sparkles and shines out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom providing beauty. It causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty that is instilled within me and you.
— Janet G. Nestor
We’re having a little disagreement. What I want is a big church wedding with bridesmaids and flowers and a no-expense-spared reception and what he wants is to break off our engagement.
— Sally Poplin
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
How beautiful it will be if your heart grows only the flowers of love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
— Francis Cabot Lowell
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
— Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
Actions are the flowers of thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
You are the beloved child of this universe, so live as if everything is yours. Every morning the sun is rising for you. The rays of light are kissing you, birds are singing for you, flowers are dancing for you, and everything belongs to you.
— Debasish Mridha
I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.
— Santosh Kalwar, I Am Dead Man Alive
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
— Andrew Weil
If you are a sensitive person, you don’t give flowers to others, because you know that the flowers – these miraculous beauties and the wondrous jewels of our cosmos – excessively deserve to live!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.
— Anthony Liccione
Use the water of encouragement on someone else’s flowers – especially the flowers that are wilted, trampled on, and taken for granted. But don’t nourish the weeds.
— Hannah Garrison
Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.
— Debasish Mridha
The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.
— Marty Rubin
Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I’ll send some flowers to your inner child.
— Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…
— Susan Polis Schutz
I am a gardener of thoughts, and my garden only grows flowers of love.
— Debasish Mridha
he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life’s pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
— Joseph Addison
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them still with its unconscious or unheeding air;…
— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
The best horror novels open up, “It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.
— Justin Alcala
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Someone once said that there are always flowers for those who want to find flowers. I think that’s true. But I also think that there are always cakes for those who want to find cakes.
— C. JoyBell C.
Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love.
— Debasish Mridha
Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.
— Hannah Hurnard
There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.
— Dodie Smith
In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.
— Lewis Carroll
…You won’t get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.
— C.S. Lewis
You can’t take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart!
— Avijeet Das
If God were to make a million lovely flowers in your image and plant them in a garden with you among them, I would still know you by your scent and by the feel of your petals and by the crazy way you lean towards my light whenever I draw near.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Pray as flowers pray for beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she’d done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.
— Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity
So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.
— Rawi Hage, Carnival
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
— Christian Dior
If you cultivate inner peace, flowers of happiness will grow in your garden to spread the fragrance of peace all over the world.
— Debasish Mridha
You leave behind your fine poems.You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend.
— Aliette de Bodard, Servant of the Underworld
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.
— Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
runaway my phantom bride and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers float away specter and take the rest of my desire
— A.P. Sweet, The Abattoir of Silence
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
— Thomas Moore
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it’s important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
— Nicola Formichetti
We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moonMany shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyesWe spend our lives and our soulsSearching-Longing-Waiting-For a little light to shine and heal our broken halo’s
— Steven A. Williams, Black
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless remain that way. Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”
— Max Lucado
Every sort of trouble I can think of, we’ve tried it out- become expert at some of it, even, so much so that I’ve come to wonder whether artists in particularity seek out hard times the way flowers turn their faces toward the sun.
— Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.
— Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
My favourite flowers are English country roses – I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
— Kate Moss
The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThough leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
— W.B. Yeats
The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.
— Jean Ingelow
Welcome as the flowers in May.
— Walter Scott
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Love is a strong seed, planted in my soul of kindness to grow the plants compassion and flowers of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It’s an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It’s a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.
— Pearl Cleage, Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do
Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched…
— Eileen A. Soper
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
Your birth filled your parents with joy, your universe with love, and your soul with the flowers of hope. May those flowers of hope bloom with the fragrance of endless success.
— Debasish Mridha
Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what’s the good of thorns?
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind.
— Debasish Mridha
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
— Gaston Leroux
Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.
— Debasish Mridha
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.
— Karl Marx
There is no afterlife for wilted flowers like me.
— Bryant A. Loney, To Hear The Ocean Sigh
One by one the flowers close Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
— Christina G. Rossetti
Life like two broken hands trying to pick flowers for someone you really like.
— Sam Pink, Your Glass Head against the Brick Parade of Now Whats
I’ll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.
— Lurlene McDaniel, Don’t Die, My Love
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
— Theodore Roethke
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.
— Edward Thomas
Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason – there’s a reason.
— Molly McGee
Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o’er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?
— Letitia Landon
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Good things have different colors, it’s like a rainbow or flowers and it’s more likely how I feel for my love ones that creates a joyous melody in my heart.How it makes me feel happy and alive
— Bradley B. Dalina
I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things.
— Bai Ling
Raindrops fall from clouds of gray.The fragile flowers grow.Teardrops seem all I can say.They speak of endless woe.Your fingers wipe my grief away.A seed of love you sow.A hardened heart reverts to clay.You mold my love just so.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Death is her name, Who walks in her garden of fame, And plucks flowers for her lock, Which has the power to ride a flock.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.
— Debasish Mridha
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.
— Kyo Maclear, Virginia Wolf
You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.
— Malak El Halabi
Oh my dear from a distant fantasy land! I love to be in your dreams as a fairy of love with wings of flowers and golden glowing flowing hair.
— Debasish Mridha
If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine’s Day.
— –Don Rickles
She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?
— Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
— Thiruvalluvar
A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.
— Debasish Mridha
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth – love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn’t flowers grow out of dirt?
— Robert Cormier, After the First Death
Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.
— Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro
Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
— Napoleon
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
— Brian Clough
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
— Lady Bird Johnson
I think gardens are fantastic, and I’d love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There’s something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
— Ed Westwick
God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He’s crazy about you.
— Max Lucado
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
Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.
— Avijeet Das
Let us decorate the world with the flowers of peace, love, and laughter.
— Debasish Mridha
Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.
— Rafi Zabor
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
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
— Andres Segovia
I’m not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together.
— Nikki Rowe
I am the universe where I let flowers bloom with the glow of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Be the celebrators, celebrate! Already there is too much—the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky—celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
He who does not know how to appreciate flowers will not be able to see the beauty of life
— Debasish Mridha
Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
It is spring again, my heart is dancing with flowers with love and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
— Ariel Sharon
There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
— Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man
A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope is the blue skyAlways inviting but always shy. Hope is the flowers of imaginationAlways stimulate our mind for action.
— Debasish Mridha
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!
— Nancy B. Brewer
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
— John Muir
The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig’s hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.
— Jody Shields, The Fig Eater
We are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
— Pablo Neruda
If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
The flowers are so beautiful, but God’s love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined!
— Craig Compton
All I want is a peaceful place where flowers can bloom, birds can sing, and the mind can fly with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Touch your enemies’ heart with love. It will bloom flowers of gratitude and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
To me, flowers are happiness.
— Stefano Gabbana
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
— David Hockney
The rain to the wind said, You push and I’ll pelt.’They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged–though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.
— Robert Frost
When a woman’s face is wrinkledAnd her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday!Aside she’s cast, No one respect will pay;Remember, Lasses, remember.And while the sun shines make hay:You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.
— Ann Rinaldi, Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In time of rain I come:I can sing among the flowers:I utter my song: my heart is glad.Water of flowers foams over the earth:My heart was intoxicated.
— Jane Bierhorst, In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations
In darkness, some flowers blossom!
— Shirley Houston
So beautiful but so bountiful.So delicate but so fresh.So magical but so simple.So much to say but yet so silent.So loving and so pleasant.Oh, flowers of charming love, You are life’s joy and present.
— Debasish Mridha
The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds, the colors of flowers as the seasons changed – everything around him felt changed, as if they had all been recast.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
— Miranda Kerr
Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.”“Leo, that’s Snow White, ” Piper said.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
— Georges Bernanos
I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.
— Debasish Mridha
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.
— Debasish Mridha
The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn’t know where to put it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Every day the sun is rising for you.Every morning birds are singing for you. In the garden, flowers are blooming for you. Every river is flowing with life just for you.
— Debasish Mridha
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
— Sappho
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
— Leo Buscaglia
When I was little, I’d pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.
— Ivanka Trump
may flowers smell their scent!
— Hakan
since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid
— E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962
The South has a way of worshipping appearances – the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.
— Paul Downs Colaizzo
Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.
— Debasish Mridha
…God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds…
— John Geddes
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
— Sanober Khan
But compare the hardest day’s work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders’ stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.
— Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine
— I insist on color.
Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.
— Gilles Deleuze
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
When you find a best friend, you become two flowers blooming from the same bud.
— Debasish Mridha
A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
— H. L. Mencken
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
— Lincoln Steffens
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
— Miranda Kerr
The more I love, the more flowers bloom in my heart.
— Debasish Mridha
It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments–the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.
— Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl
I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.
— Marc Chagall
May the flowers of spring bring beauty and joy to your world everyday.
— Debasish Mridha
I believe that flowers are like people. Flowers come in different colours, shapes and sizes. Some extremely rare and some very common. They are all beautiful in their own unique way.
— Alex Haditaghi
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
— Walt Whitman
In most gardens”, the Tiger-lily said, “they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
— Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
I am in love, I became an angel; flowers bloom with my touch, birds comes to me and sing love song, air touches my cheeks to feel my love, leaves are dancing around me with the melody of love.Oh love, I am in love, I am the love.
— Debasish Mridha
Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?
— Debasish Mridha
I have nothing to do today but to smell the freshness of flowers and feel the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.
— Nicole McKay, A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness – ignorance, credulity – helps your enjoyment of these things.
— Walt Whitman
I’m on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.
— Marty Rubin
The real strength of therose bush is not in the flowers but in the roots and the branches.
— Dorcas Kareithi
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.
— Laura Gentile, Seraphic Addiction
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
— Oscar Wilde
The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
— Jennifer Lopez
People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.
— Cindy Campopiano, Other
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’m not really a fan of Valentine’s Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine’s Day. It’s more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
— Gabriella Wilde
Use your senses to SEE yourself for who you truly are. SMELL the flowers and become one with nature. TASTE the goodness of God. HEAR the truth. TOUCH the hearts of others with kindness and honest deeds.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog
— Estella M. Chung, Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post
She’s a manner of speaking.Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
— Kimberly Kinrade, Bits of You & Pieces of Me
In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.
— Kakuzō Okakura, The Book Of Tea
I don’t believe I’ve ever truly appreciated flowers before tonight.
— Julia Mills, Her Love, Her Dragon: The Saga Begins
The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.
— Emily Dickinson
Rusted FlowersFrom her heart’stear-salted soil, rusted flowers grew.A serrated beauty;wounding all those who bent near.
— John Mark Green
The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
— Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede
The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive
— Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
— John Bartlett
To enjoy the magnificence of life, keep love blooming in your heart just like flowers bloom in your garden.
— Debasish Mridha
I won’t regret, because you can grow flowers where dirt used to be.
— Kate Nash
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
— A. A. Milne
Now when the flowers are in full bloom, It is the ashes from the past that hidden loom.
— Selina A. Mahmood, Apophasis: A Bildungsroman Through Facebook
I like feeling like I’m something , That I’m some ones. i never had this be fore . its really pretty all light and pink and green like a spring day but with a few grey clouds that come and go and help the flowers grow . This feeling it’s love.
— Lizzy Blue
Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look beautiful and feel Proud.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
HOUSE Grow high. The devil can’t find you. Grow deep. Buddha can’t find you. Build a house and live there. Gourd creepers will climb over it, their flowers dazzling at midnight.
— Ko Un, What? 108 Zen Poems
Forget-me-nots… She loved those flowers more than any other in their big beautiful garden or in the whole wide world for that matter. They were sky blue, just like his eyes, they held a promise… Forget me not.
— Melanie Sargsian, Lovember: A Collection of Short Love Stories
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
— Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship
Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.
— Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom
— Richard L. Ratliff
Gods are always ready, their hands are always full with flowers. They simply watch and wait. Whenever somebody becomes a Subhuti, empty, whenever somebody is absent, suddenly the flowers start showering.
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
I’m more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
— Jai Courtney
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
— T. L. Cuyler
Like flowers blooming through cement, we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York
I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.
— Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, The Widower
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
— Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror
My love, you are all the flowers in the worldand I promise that my heart will always be your garden.
— Timothy Joshua
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
— Pablo Neruda
It is soon to be springThe Christmas toys barely played with I have a glass soldier whose head can turn The epaulettes interchangeable Soon flowers will bloom Lawrence from the garden shed will give us each a cup of seeds I am to wait I said
— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Grass is the forgiveness of nature – her constant benediction. … Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.
— John Ingalls
Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze’s chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
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 almost never respect men. They’re like flowers — all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
— Martin Luther
In the soul of a lover, it is always spring where flowers of ecstasy are always blooming. Music of love is always playing.
— Debasish Mridha
You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
— Henri Matisse
May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one’s spirit
— Steve Butler, We Do Remember You
My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
— Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.
— Chris McGeown
What did you expect? That he’d send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a stuffed animal as you’re ever going to get from a Spartan like Logan Quinn.
— Jennifer Estep, Touch of Frost
Such a beautiful smile! It is like spring flowers in the deadness of a white winter.
— Debasish Mridha
To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence.
— Saurabh Sharma
I revel in flowers without let, An atom at random in space;My soul dwells in regions ethereal, And the world is my dreaming-place.
— L. Cranmer-Byng, A Lute of Jade
With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.
— Harold Davis, Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis
The door opened, held by the butler, and Lord Montagu swept into the room, his presence overwhelming the space. She could swear even the flowers in their vases perked up and listed in his direction. Honest to Pete.
— Angela Quarles, Must Love Breeches
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
— Chanakya
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.
— Edgar Watson Howe
A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
— Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers
Generosity does not come from wealth. Wealth comes from the flowers of kindness and love.
— Debasish Mridha
Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.
— Clara Winter, Tintagel
Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue, while others prefer the shade;As is Human Nature…..Some turn their faces to the sunwhile others seek solitude.But no matter where you wish to stand;Stand Straight and Stand tall.
— Michelle Geaney
There were cracked head stones, dead flowers and weeds coming through the ground. Even the trees looked lifeless. –The Body By the Tree
— Yawatta Hosby, When the Lights Go Out – Ink Slingers’ Halloween Anthology
Our mind is a garden, our thoughts are the seeds. We can grow flowers or we can grow weeds. Don’t forget to water it!
— Alston Gray, How to Own a Car on the Cheap (without sacrificing quality)
Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare – one might take a name from that.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I do not spoil women. … I don’t send them flowers and gifts. . . . I’m saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman’s synthetic affections.
— George Sanders
Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.‘You cannot take these flowers, ’ said Zoran. ‘They belong to the government.
— Doug MacLeod, I’m Being Stalked by a Moonshadow
A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t give up! Remember, we love to be enchanted by flowers in bloom… but don’t forget that it took many rainy days to achieve such beauty. Your bloom is coming!
— Steve Maraboli
I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse…throw them away.
— Donna Lynn Hope
all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness
— John Geddes
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them
— Munia Khan
And I came back and it was great, ‘cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
— Ringo Starr
The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out.
— Fran Macilvey, Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
— Edvard Munch
From little seeds great flowers grow.
— Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Beguiling, without doubt; the month of May scatters flowers – electrifying attributes, demanding and longing for the smell of love.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.
— Ana Monnar
Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that’s how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise – why would it be any less then for a human life?
— Nikki Rowe
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….
— George Bernard Shaw, Music in London
You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Magical morning lights, dreamy sky, Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes
— Debasish Mridha
The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
— Samuel Butler
A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. “That’s Robert Speer, ” one said. “Something like that. He’s our man.
— Marge Piercy
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
— Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
The job of the united nations is to grow more flowers on the earth.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World
Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.
— Yann Martel, Self
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation’s leaders and citizens.
— Stewart Udall
There’s also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one’s faculties.
— Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki
Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
But if God is the flowers and the treesAnd the hills and the sun and the moonlight, Then I believe in him, Then I believe in him all the time, And my whole life is an oration and a mass, And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
— Oscar Wilde
Is that you giggling away to glory?Or is that just the flowers mingling with the bees and telling their story?
— Avijeet Das
Don’t try to smell the flowers without planting them.
— Debasish Mridha
Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
— Margaret Atwood
I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow.
— George Harrison
Love must be as beautiful as spring flowers and as bright as the morning sun.
— Debasish Mridha
When the young womanleans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits openuntil her milk runs.
— Günter Grass
He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.
— Gemma Malley, The Declaration
Some flowers blush sensing their own beauty and the love they feel from us
— Brent M. Jones
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this “once in a thousand years” has come today.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
— James Kavanaugh, Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights
There are two types of women. The ones who wait to receive flowers and the ones who go out and pick them.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
— E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems
When you do things with love, flowers bloom inside you.
— Debasish Mridha
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
— Mao Zedong
Like flowers to a bee, feelings are the silent language of the heart.
— Debasish Mridha
But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man’s despair.
— Oscar Wilde
There are flowers growing in hell. Let’s go pick them!
— Naoyuki Ochiai, Syndrome 1866 T08
It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.
— H R Brock
Like flowers we grow, bloom, and whither – each day and each life. In our next life we’ll grow, bloom, and whither even more beautifully. But although we blossom more grandiose in each new life, all our lives are perfect in their own way.
— Stefan Emunds
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
— Antonio Porchia
Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?
— Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
Love and let flowers of peace bloom in your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
And now she stood outside the station with his flowers pressed happily to her breast, in all that red cardigan of hers, making the rest of the world look as if it was made in greyscale.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.
— Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table
But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail
— Tricia Goyer, A Christmas Gift for Rose
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
— John Muir, The Mountains of California
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.
— Shirley MacLaine
Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.
— R.X. Bird
Grass is the forgiveness of nature – her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.
— Brian Ingalls
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
— Megan Hart, Tear You Apart
Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
— Isaac Watts
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers – lovely, but dead.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
I don’t find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine’s Day makes no sense.
— Alia Bhatt
Take me to the land of lovers where flowers bloom with love, birds sing with love, and hearts long for hearts.
— Debasish Mridha
We planted flowers last year and I didn’t know if I’d be alive to see them come up.
— Neal McHugh
Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave youfeelinghomelessor brimmingwith home.
— Sanober Khan
The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He’s sophisticated he brings her flowers and candy he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.
— Tim Conway
There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
— John Masefield
I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
— Mercedes McCambridge
In your heart, create a world full of flowers and love.
— Debasish Mridha
How can the moon be scooped from the water’s surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?
— Lisa See, Peony in Love
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.
— Edvard Munch
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.
— Janosch
Plastic flowers last for hours
— Bill Fairclough, Beyond Enkription – The Burlington Files
The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never give a woman flowers to say I love you . Tell her how much you love her and you will wake up looking at the flowers beside her bed.
— Colin Tegerdine, You Can’t Google Life
Sweetie, I’m not a flowers and chocolates kind of gal, ” she said, leaning into him. “Well, maybe the chocolate.”“I was going to say.”— Krysta and Étienne
— Dianne Duvall, Darkness Rises
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
— Theodore Roethke
I have no heroes except flowers and children.
— Marty Rubin
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
— Gertrude Stein
Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.
— Adele Rose, Possession
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood’s bending knee;Fairies use flower for their charactery.
— William Shakespeare
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
— Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
The tulip is among flowers what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb the other in its tail.
— French proverb
I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)
— Robert Schumann, The Letters Of Robert Schumann
It is the littlest of flowers that fly the farthest . . . That have the courage to fly the farthest.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword