And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
~By Thomas Moore ~
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
~By Chubby Checker ~
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
~By Thomas Tusser ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~By John Steinbeck ~
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 ~
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
~By Bert Williams ~
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
~By Henry Williamson ~
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 ~
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
~By Richard Blackmore ~
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
~By Lincoln Steffens ~
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
~By Bernard Malamud ~
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
~By Ethel Waters ~
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~By Beverley Nichols ~
Earth laughs in flowers.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~By Martin Luther ~
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 ~
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~By Corita Kent ~
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~By Isaac Watts ~
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
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 ~
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
~By James Allen ~
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
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 ~
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 ~
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~By Edna Ferber ~
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
~By Austin Dobson ~
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~By A. A. Milne ~
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 ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
~By Walter de La Mare ~
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
~By Robert Fortune ~
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~By Doug Larson ~
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~By Grantland Rice ~
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 ~
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~By Henri Matisse ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
~By John Foxe ~
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
~By Christopher Smart ~
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
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 ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
~By Augustus Hare ~
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 ~
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
~By Robert Bresson ~
I like perfume and flowers.
~By Donatella Versace ~
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 ~
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
~By Andrew Marvell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
~By Sharon Stone ~
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
~By Gerald Massey ~
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
~By George Balanchine ~
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 ~
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
~By John Ruskin ~
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
~By Grace Hansen ~
I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
At my age flowers scare me.
~By George Burns ~
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
~By Brian Clough ~
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
~By Lena Horne ~
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
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 moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
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 ~
What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
~By Anna Neagle ~
I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
~By Soundarya ~
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
~By Ursula Andress ~
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~By Chanakya ~
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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