The Flower Quotes

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette.

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 aremetaphors.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

Flowers feed the soul.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.