Flower Quotes

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.

Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

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

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow