Marigolds Quotes

19 quotes from 15 authors

The garden of marigolds blossoms across 19 voices, each offering a fresh take on hope, resilience, and the sun‑lit corners of our imagination. From youthful optimism to reflective musings on nature’s role in storytelling, the collection paints a vivid floral weave that stays clear of clichés. If you love plant symbolism, you may also appreciate pages on floral metaphors, nature in literature, or garden‑themed poetry.

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Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

John Gay

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Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

John Keats

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Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

Libba Bray

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“Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you?”

William Carlos Williams

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Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

William Shakespeare

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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

Jean Ingelow

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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

Rajneesh

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“Wondering When the Strings Will Snap” poem: “The marigolds herald autumn’s colors already In their sun-shrine faces, iconographic Floral worship of their…

Elizabeth Barrette

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Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a…

Richard Grossinger

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“But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of…

Joyce Lankester Brisley

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Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises…

William Shakespeare

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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and…

Henry Ward Beecher

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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and…

Adam Johnson

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Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want…

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and…

Ali Larter

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She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright…

Catherynne M. Valente