Flower Quotes · Page 209

Winter makes me want to rage. You know how there's road rage? I feel like in New York or upstate New York,…

— Liza Lapira

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is.…

— Charles Bukowski

It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet…

— Gregory Maguire

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

— Samuel Garth

“You are my song, my dark blue dream Of doves, of winter's drowsy drone, And sleighs that slow and golden go Through…

— Velimir Khlebnikov

To give your beloved beautiful flowers is amazing, but it will never compare to treating her as a beautiful flower.

— Nea Joy Justice

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

— Gautama Buddha

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires…

— David E. Cooper

For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to…

— Michael Pollan

“This forest was immense. It stretched away uninterruptedly to the north, till stopped by having got to the shores of the Baltic.…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of…

— Helen Fisher

“Barbecues, beach days, & those long, lazy summer nights—hello, summer! It's time to bask in the sun, flip burgers like a pro,…

— Life is Positive

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of…

— Stephen Leacock

Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will…

— Suzy Kassem

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

— Thomas Malory

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

— Emily Carr

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

— Kim Wilde

I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.

— Anne Sexton

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to…

— May Sarton

I just feel like the garden is a place where you can explore humanity quite deeply.

— Lee Isaac Chung

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for…

— Karlie Kloss

Now taking applications for summer flings. Job requirements include heavy drinking, daily naps in the sun, and long nights with little sleep.

— Anonymous

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded…

— George Eliot

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

— Thomas Moore

“...you are enchanted - only a princess can leave glass footprints in the snow...”

— John Geddes

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

— Thomas Starr King

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

— Clive Anderson

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a…

— Ellsworth Huntington

“...sometimes we can’t enjoy the bloom of a rose because we’re too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.”

— Suzannah Daniels

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into…

— John Burroughs

“The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses.”

— Devon Monk

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

— Henri Matisse

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

— William Wordsworth

If I had a flower for each time I thought of My Mother, I could walk in my garden forever

— Ritu Ghatourey

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

— Charles Francis Richter