Sunflowers Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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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 for the sake…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the…
— Chuck Jones
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I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the…
— Luther Standing Bear
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Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
— Edna Ferber
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Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
— Joe Hill
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My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...
— Mary Oliver
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Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
— Khaled Hosseini
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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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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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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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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 Symphonyâ€,…
— Brennan Manning
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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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Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
— Anthony Lewis
Who Wrote These Sunflowers Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Sunflowers Quotes as follows: