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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
~By John Ruskin ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
~By Andrew Marvell ~
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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 ~
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
~By Grace Hansen ~
Flowers are happy things.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
The earth laughs in flowers.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~By Isaac Watts ~
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~By Doug Larson ~
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 ~
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
~By Ruth Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~By Beverley Nichols ~
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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 ~
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
~By Joseph Addison ~
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
~By Edvard Munch ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
~By Thomas Tusser ~
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
~By Augustus Hare ~
I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
~By Ray Davies ~
I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~By Edna Ferber ~
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
~By Lope de Vega ~
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 ~
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~By Corita Kent ~
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
~By Brian Clough ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~By Grantland Rice ~
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
~By Chubby Checker ~
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
~By Bert Williams ~
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"
~By Delta Burke ~
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
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 ~
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 ~
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
~By Christopher Smart ~
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
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 souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
~By Jean Paul ~
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
~By Richard H. Stoddard ~
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 ~
I like perfume and flowers.
~By Donatella Versace ~
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 ~
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
~By Beau Bridges ~
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~By Chanakya ~
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Earth laughs in flowers.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.
~By Soundarya ~
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
~By Louis Aragon ~
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 ~
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 without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
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 ~
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~By Martin Luther ~
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 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 ~
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
~By Egon Schiele ~
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 ~
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~By Matsuo Basho ~
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 ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~By A. A. Milne ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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