Flowers Quotes

1900 Flowers quotes by 1175 unique authors

The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The… — Densey Clyne
Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be… — Rachel Billington
Love slowly like a ship full of flowers. — Sidney Nolan
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it… — Lord Buckley
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous.… — Joel Achenbach
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the… — Chief Seattle
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. — Elizabeth Goudge
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. — Rabindranath Tagore
Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing. — Robert Frost
We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle:… — Chief Seattle
Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance. — Rajneesh
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. — Fran Lebowitz
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season. — Anne Geddes
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… — Virginia Woolf
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. — Rabindranath Tagore
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving.… — Unknown Author
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds. — David Hobson
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is… — Freya Stark
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of… — Bernard Berenson
Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever… — William Shakespeare
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. — Walter Raleigh
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the… — Caryll Houselander
All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now… — George MacDonald

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