I want to go to a place where the flowers grow,where the…

“It is not the thunder that makes the flowers grow...”

— Jury Nel

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who…

— Mary Russell Mitford

“If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you place flowers there with your mind fully given over to a god, those flowers will surely reach that deity's feet. But if…

— Lakshmi Holmstrom

“When a marriage dies, there’s no corpse to grieve over, no place to put flowers.”

— Alex A. King

“I made flowers grow for them out of the garden, but they came out ... weird. Some of the roses had teeth.”

— Tamsyn Muir

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

— Saint Francis de Sales

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

— Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

“there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

— Dogen

I look unto the land I know not where ill stand. I see the still streams flow meandering far below. Like the waters flow…

— Mark Hook

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

— Heraclitus

“My seams gape wide so I'm tossed aside To rot on a lonely shore, While the leaves and mould like a shroud unfold, For…

— George Marsh

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.

— Walter Scott

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes…

— Vikram Seth