Flower Quotes

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

- Kendrick Lamar

All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

- Miranda Kerr

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

- James Joyce

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

- Chief Dan George

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.

- Shunryu Suzuki

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

- William C. Bryant

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.

- William Shakespeare

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

- Michaela DePrince

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

- Christian Dior

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

- Leonardo da Vinci

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

- Luther Burbank

One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color. Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life.

- Quentin L. Cook

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

- Jerry Spinelli

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

- Khalil Gibran

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

- Friedrich Frobel

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

- Max Lucado

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

- William Wordsworth

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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- Ram Dass

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

- Lady Bird Johnson

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

- Siegfried Sassoon

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

- Igor Sikorsky

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

- Talib Kweli

Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.

- Peter Tosh

When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one.

- Grace Kelly

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

- Emilie du Chatelet

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

- Martin Luther

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

- William Wordsworth

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.

- Pablo Neruda

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

- Teresa of Avila

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

- Harriet Tubman

Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour.

- Sam Hamill

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

- Jean Ingelow

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

- Nhat Hanh

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

- William Blake

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

- Jeremy Bentham

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

- Sandra Cisneros

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

- Swami Vivekananda

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

- George Balanchine

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

- Oscar Levant

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

- Enid Bagnold

Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

- James Oppenheim

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

- Rabindranath Tagore