Flower Quotes · Page 117

Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower:

— John Skelton

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

— Cassandra Clare

“our destinies are intertwined like the stems of ivy on an oak tree.”

— Chris Tinniswood

Black rose your thorns are cutting into me.

— Trapt

“Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play.”

— Christina Rossetti

“Even on a bed That is full of roses, I was afraid.”

— Jyoti Patel

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

— Haruki Murakami

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled?”

— Marian Keyes

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

— Jan Struther

I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

— Anna Ewers

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

— John Muir

If I had a flower For every time u made me smile & laugh I'd have a garden to walk in forever..!!

— Mýväñwý Mêghä

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by…

— Donald G. Mitchell

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

— Kehinde Wiley

So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers,…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a…

— Joyce Tenneson

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering…

— John Burroughs

“It's kind of spooky sometimes,' a Canadian lawyer said to me one day. 'There you are, in the Kim Do Hotel, it's…

— Pico Iyer

“They call it 'the whispering of the stars.' Listen," he said, raising a finger for silence. I could still hear the tinkling…

— Jon Fasman

Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter,…

— Enya

Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork…

— Anonymous

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Well-apparel'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads.

— William Shakespeare

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

— Henry Clay

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“If weeds could flourish with such vigor, may I could, too.”

— Charlaine Harris

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

— David Icke

“I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom”

— Banana Yoshimoto

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

— John Harrison

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

— George Herbert

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

— Elliott Erwitt

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

— Hillary Clinton

Regular Inner Gardening keeps us fresh ,,

— Praveen Singhal

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

— Carol Plum-Ucci