Flower Quotes · Page 161

“How terrible it was that it should be spring, and everything cold-hearted, cold-hearted.”

— D. H. Lawrence

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples…

— Karel Capek

My mom taught me to do things like hug a tree and ask for a flower's permission to pick it.

— Rachel Bilson

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

— Olga Broumas

Rose is said to be one of the most beautiful things in the world.But I always find you more beautiful than the…

— Bibeka

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

— Pierre de Ronsard

“My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines,I tell him.He only says,"Good fences make good neighbors.”

— Robert Frost

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me…

— Anne Lamott

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our…

— Lydia M. Child

“They basked in the sweet-scented breeze, and felt the sunshine warming their bare heads. Petals drifted from the gnarled apple and cherry…

— Susan Wiggs

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it.…

— Grace Jones

You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that…

— Jason Epstein

“Then think of this as an adventure." I kissed hi cheek. "So which flower should I be?" He curled me close to…

— Lisa Mangum

You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my…

— Martine Leavitt

It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was…

— Terry Fox

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower…

— Maria Mitchell

“The greenhouse effect I am knowing; To protest right now I am going, But oh my gee whiz, I'm going that is,…

— Alan Cook

There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at…

— William Morris

Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

— Barbara Damrosch

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

— Galen Beckett

“All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs.”

— Jane Yolen

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Know yourself as a snowdrift on the sand Heaped for two days, or three, then thawed and gone. (c.1050-c.1123)”

— Omar Khayyam

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

— Eric Thomas

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if…

— Diane Ackerman

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

— Rajneesh

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

— Andrea Bocelli

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if…

— Emily Saliers

The world goes to sleep when it's a cold winter. All except those writers in which it naturally rains inside of them…

— Needa Muy

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

— Pat Conroy

“Each seed of goodness we plant grows roots deep enough to hold the world steady.”

— Carlos Wallace

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Only one tree remained standing in a field cleared of trees. Yet that never deterred it from being a tree.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours…

— Daniele Vare

Dreams, and predictions of astrology…ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

— Francis Bacon

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and…

— Sherwood Anderson

“He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald