Sunflower Quotes
53 Sunflower quotes by 44 unique authors
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Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
— Khaled Hosseini
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It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul…
— Thomas Moore
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For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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we're all golden sunflowers inside.
— Allen Ginsberg
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I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot…
— Thornton Wilder
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Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and…
— Janet Evanovich
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Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
— Vera Nazarian
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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the…
— Patricia Briggs
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
— Allen Ginsberg
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We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory,…
— Libba Bray
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
— Jerry Spinelli
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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
— Richard Rohr
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Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
— Jo Walton
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In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am…
— Mary Oliver
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Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
— Virginia Woolf
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There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
— Richard Brautigan
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
— Allen Ginsberg
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Hello, Harry!” she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly. “How did you know…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”,…
— Brennan Manning
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Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?
— Simone Elkeles
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where…
— William Blake
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In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands…
— Nhat Hanh
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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running…
— Charles Jencks
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Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me…
— Eugenio Montale
Who Wrote These Sunflower Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 53 Sunflower Quotes, led by these top contributors: