Affirming Quote by Marya Mannes

“She walked indoors, and staring once more at her orchids, thought to herself: ‘Flowers have their spring-time, a time for fresh blossoms and young…

— Cao Xueqin

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

— John Muir

Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In…

— William Cowper

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

“Flowers magnetize us with their beauty and reflect back to us our own essence. Their qualities magnify positive aspects of ourselves. They serve as…

— Katie Hess

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do…

— William Wordsworth

“Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”

— William Shakespeare

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by…

— Woodrow Wilson

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it…

— Tadashi Shoji