72 Bright and Beautiful Sunflower Quotes, Lyrics, and Sayings

I think your love would be too much
Or you'll be left in the dust
Unless I stuck by ya
You're the sunflower
You're the sunflower

I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.

I will admit you are the finest if not the loveliest rose in the garden. But you see, my dear, I was looking for a sunflower.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.

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 sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Wherever the sun goes
The sunflower will follow
Through all of the pain
And all of the sorrow.

Ah Sunflower, weary of time
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

Despite knowing they won't be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives -- sunflowers.

Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you.

You look beautiful as a sunflower
and charming as a rose.

Do you know where the sunflowers' lights go when they die?

The head of all flower heads is one flower; the sunflower in the sky, that gives the others vivid color stemming from the inside.

What god does a sunflower believe in? That's the god I believe in.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people.

If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.

Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.

But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves. Drooping all night; and, when the warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame
To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame;
It was not sleep that made him nod, he said,
But too great weight and largeness of his head.

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp...
If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower
O my soul, I loved you then!

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird -- equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

We're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're all blessed by our own seed and golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra).

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
Who gazest ever true and tender
On the sun's revolving splendour.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.

Make it like a sunflower.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever.

If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness, Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

I don't know why, but I love sunflowers, and I just have this vivid memory of being in a field of sunflowers and how they felt like trees. They felt so tall.

I think it's something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it is just some kind of core human experience.

Yellow is my favorite summer color -- it makes me feel like a sunflower.