Flower Quotes · Page 47

If life is so great..Why do roses have thorns?

— Anonymous

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

— Remy de Gourmont

Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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

— Dustin Hoffman

“No matter where you are spread the fragrance of peace like a flower.”

— Debasish Mridha

“The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page”

— Gregory Orr

“A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

No flower wants to be at home when it is raining outside!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

— Francis Quarles

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass…

— Frederick Lenz

If friends were flowers, I would not pick you! I'll let you grow in the garden and cultivate you with love and…

— Anonymous

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

— Hal Borland

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

— Emilie du Chatelet

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

— Nina Fedoroff

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

— Alexandre Dumas

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.

— Cinda Williams Chima

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Dear god today I saw the neighbor shovel snow into the sea big shovels of snow that just melted away water turned…

— Nils-Øivind Haagensen

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and…

— Thomas Merton

“Zach's eyes flash with light, caught by the peculiar greenness of early summer grass and the strobe effect of sun through wrought-iron…

— Emma Richler

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“She was carrying these revolting, disturbing yellow flowers. God knows what they're called, but for some reason they're the first to appear…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the…

— Alexander Pope

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

— James Joyce

“When a flower fails to bloom it robs the world of beauty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You smell like the roses. I smell like the thorns.”

— C.D. Reiss

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

— Thomas Tusser

“Will you be at the harvest, Among the gatherers of new fruits?”

— Ben Okri

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

— Kathleen Norris

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

— Thomas Merton

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

— George Herbert

“Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.”

— Janosch

It's a brilliant place to be. It's rewarding. Gardens are so rewarding.

— Ainsley Harriott

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

— Ken Thompson

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

— Anonymous

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

— Noel Gallagher