Flower Quotes · Page 220

“The flowers in the desert which bloomed and died were just different versions of their own small lives.”

— Sharon Kendrick

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry…

— Kenji Miyazawa

“Beauty is the wilful celebration of the self. The Cherry Blossom blooms but it does not try to be a Lotus Flower.”

— Kerry Cue

“Daffodil: A flowering plant in the amaryllis family with a trumpet-like bloom whose rich, honeyed scent carries a message of new beginnings”

— Meg Donohue

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

— Edward Hoagland

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

— Novalis

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

— John Vianney

“At home in Moscow everything was in its winter routine; the stoves were heated, and in the morning it was still dark…

— Anton Chekhov

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how…

— Mother Teresa

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After…

— Eckhart Tolle

I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I…

— Steve Zahn

You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up…

— Norton Juster

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that…

— Khalil Gibran

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had…

— Sylvia Plath

“And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

— Sukarno

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

— Jose Marti

“When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.”

— David Wolfe

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit…

— Stanley Crawford

I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.

— BJ the Chicago Kid

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

— Mason Cooley

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.

— Rush Limbaugh

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

— Richard Paul Evans

An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways,…

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

— Richard Realf

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

— Richard Sibbes

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few…

— May Sarton

Frostbite, klondike, polar bear, neck wear. Watch n earrings frigidare, $50,000 ear.

— Gucci Mane

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

— Stephen Potter

“In April, which Hannah now heartily agreed was the cruelest month, mixing memory with desire, she walked past the burgeoning lilies that…

— Laura L. Sullivan

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

— Mother Teresa

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

— Rudyard Kipling

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

— Julia Cameron

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“Shrub roses readily create broad, informal hedges. Grandifloras make tall, narrow ones, while floribundas are best for low hedges. Space plants 24 inches”

— Maggie Oster

“...outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns...”

— Frances Mayes