Flower Quotes

I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse...throw them away.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.

~ Amit Ray

Found in trees. Sometimes also in old silent movie theaters, seaside zoos, magic shops, hat shops, time-travel shops, topiary gardents, cowboy boots, castle turrets, comet museums, dog pounds, mermaid ponds, dragon lairs, library stacks (the ones in the back), piles of leaves, piles of pancakes, the belly of a fiddle, the bell of a flower, or in the company of wild herds of typewriters. But mostly in trees.

~ Michelle Cuevas

The flower is here, so let's dance here.

~ Amjad Nasser

Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you’ve grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.

~ Elijah Noble El

I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I'll catch any rose in my vase-shaped heart, then process it through my vascular system, until there's nothing left.

~ Will Advise

Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Real love ought to be more like a tree and less like a flower.

~ Mya Robarts

Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

~ Phillips Brooks

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

~ Leo Buscaglia

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

~ Max Muller

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

~ Stevie Wonder

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

~ John Lennon

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

~ John Lennon

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

~ Mike White

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

~ Victor Hugo

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

~ Helen Keller

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

~ Dorothea Dix

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~ Albert Camus

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

~ James Montgomery

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

~ Jean Giraudoux

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

~ Martha Graham

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.

~ Auguste Rodin

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

~ Neil Young

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

~ Loren Eiseley

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

~ Clyde Tombaugh

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

~ William Wordsworth

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

~ John Ridley

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

~ John Harrigan