The Flower Quotes

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

Generosity is the flower of justice.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

Love the road of your life... There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Fashion is everywhere. Everywhere! Flowers are fashion to me, the sky is fashion, my garden is fashion. My darling, the Sistine Chapel is fashion.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers. Well, there's something to be said for flowers in the dustbin.

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.

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

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]