I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
~ Damien Hirst
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
~ Edvard Munch
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
~ Jonathan Davis
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.
~ Andres Segovia
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
At my age flowers scare me.
~ George Burns
To me, flowers are happiness.
~ Stefano Gabbana
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.
~ Conor Oberst
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.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
~ David Hockney
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.
~ Marcelene Cox
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
~ Bayard Taylor
I like perfume and flowers.
~ Donatella Versace
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
~ Luther Burbank
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
~ Mamata Banerjee
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.
~ Jane Goodall
There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!
~ Pom Klementieff
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
~ Christian Dior
I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.
~ Miranda Kerr
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
~ Chanakya
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.
~ Nick Hanauer
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
~ Francis Cabot Lowell
We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it's the Tuesday that's tough that really counts. Sometimes she just needs some flowers or even just that ear. It's the little things that count. It's the regular days of the year that you have to keep your attention on her.
~ Bj The Chicago Kid
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~ Martin Luther
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
~ George Washington Carver
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
~ Edmund White
And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
~ Ringo Starr
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~ Corita Kent
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
~ Henry Austin Dobson
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
~ Ed Westwick
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
~ Richard Powers
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.
~ Giambattista Valli
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
~ Eddie Cantor
Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.
~ Sandra Bullock
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~ Sigmund Freud
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~ A. A. Milne
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
~ Georges Bernanos
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~ Pablo Neruda
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~ May Sarton
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
~ Beau Bridges
