Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~By Isaac Watts ~
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
~By Austin Dobson ~
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
~By Lope de Vega ~
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
~By John W. Gardner ~
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
~By Letitia Landon ~
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
~By Robert Fortune ~
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
~By George Balanchine ~
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 birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
~By C. Northcote Parkinson ~
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
~By Annie Dillard ~
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
~By Bette Davis ~
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~By Henri Matisse ~
The earth laughs in flowers.
~By e. e. cummings ~
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
~By Francis Cabot Lowell ~
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"
~By Delta Burke ~
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
~By Helen Keller ~
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
~By Vic Morrow ~
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Flowers are happy things.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
~By Jean Paul ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
~By Andy Richter ~
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~By Martin Luther ~
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
~By Christopher Smart ~
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~By Edna Ferber ~
I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
~By Bert Williams ~
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
~By Bernard Malamud ~
It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~By May Sarton ~
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
~By Max Beckmann ~
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~By Corita Kent ~
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
~By Mao Zedong ~
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~By A. A. Milne ~
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
~By Luther Burbank ~
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
~By John Ruskin ~
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
~By Richard H. Stoddard ~
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
~By Craig Johnston ~
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
~By Lena Horne ~
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
~By Al Purdy ~
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
~By Brian Clough ~
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
~By Conor Oberst ~
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
~By Ken Hill ~
I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
~By Soundarya ~
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
~By Ruth Brown ~
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
~By Anne Rice ~
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~By Beverley Nichols ~
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~By Ambrose Philips ~
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
Earth laughs in flowers.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
~By Andres Segovia ~
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~By Chanakya ~
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
~By Walter Hagen ~
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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