136 Fabulous Flower Quotes

The earth laughs in flowers.

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

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

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

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.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

You always have to remember -- no matter what you're told -- that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Flowers are happy things.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Wild flowers grow where they will.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

To me, flowers are happiness.

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.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.
All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Flowers are the remnants of paradise on earth.

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!

Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.

"I think I like wildflowers best," I explain. "They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow."

When you bloom like a blossom, you must help other flower buds to bloom too.

Be a tree of love and let it bloom with flowers of happiness.

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun and the moon.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

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

The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

Each separate flower has a magic all its own.

Flowers always have it -- poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

I always notice flowers.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

We have much to hope from the flowers.

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

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

How precious is a growing flower and a smiling child?

Let your Life be a garden of peace and your smile be a bloom of flowers.

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom;
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

Everything is soul and flowering.

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them; people never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

The flowers like me back.

A flower's just a seed when it's young
And every flower's reaching, every flower's reaching
Every flower's reaching for the sun.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Passion flower
Sent from the blue above
You're a flower of love
Passion flower
Free as a star in flight
Laughing through the night.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

Those of you who cultivate the flowers, are like the flowers, and help make this city a city of flowers.

How I wished that I could come back as a flower
To spread the sweetness of love.

Out of the earth came whole troops of flowers, like motley stars.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

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

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

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.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

A flower blooms best in a happy pot.

Flowers feed the soul.

The flower fades that is not looked upon.

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

She is a wildflower. Let her bloom!