Flower Quote by Alice Hoffman

“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink…

— Alice Hoffman

“Out of the fresh little green hearts of their foliage the lilacs raised inquisitively over the fence of the park their plumes of white…

— Marcel Proust

“Alive to the loving past She conjures her own. Nothing is wholly lost— Sun on the stone. And lilacs in their splendor Like lost…

— May Sarton

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

— Anonymous

Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards…

— Amy Lowell

“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part…

— Walt Whitman

Lilacs are May in essence.

— Jean Hersey

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

— Margaret Millar

Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

— Anonymous

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In…

— Daniel O'Connell