August Quote by Samuel Rutherford

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

— Sean Covey

I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.

— Larry Wilcox

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands…

— Thomas de Quincey

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

— George Carlin

Children, don't waste a single second. Serve others, above all the poor, expecting nothing in return. Just as the person who offers God flowers…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

— Arthur Golden

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted,…

— Richard Hooker

“Can I, that these flowers’ obsequies attend, Divine how soon or late my life will end? Let others laugh flower-burial to see: Another year…

— Cao Xueqin

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows,…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

— Joan Crawford