The Flower Quotes

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Everything ends with flowers.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

I love like the 80s look - 80s and early 90s, like the high-waisted jeans and the crop tops, and the floral prints, and flowers and stuff like that. Big baggy jumpers... yeah, stuff like that.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

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.

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

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