Where flowers bloom so does hope.
-Lady Bird Johnson
When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other.
-Chinese Proverb
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
-Gerald De Nerval
Lovely flowers are smiles of God's goodness.
-Dr. Samuel Wilberforce
Flowers are love's truest language.
-Park Benjamin
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
-Luther Burbank
The Earth Laughs in Flowers
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are the sweetest things God
ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-John Gardner
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That queen of secrecy, the violet.
-John Keats
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.
-Theodore Parker
Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred
flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages.
Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved
women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to
take the souls of women to the Elysian fields.
-Hana No Monogatari: The Stories of Flowers
Just living is not enough...
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
-Hans Christian Andersen
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
-Kozuko Okakura
When it is darkest, men see the stars.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower
–Unknown
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature
-Gerard de Nerval
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
-Unknown
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
-Emma Goldman
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
-Mary Sarton
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
-Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
-William Blake
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God.
- Ludwig Tieck
Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root
and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
-Tennyson
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally
considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small
compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world
with a passion for flowers in his soul.
-Celia Thaxter
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.
-William Allingham
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
-Claude Monet
Different flowers look good to different people
Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked.
The flower that you spent time to care for does not grow while the willow
that your accidentally planted flourishes and gives shade.
-Chinese Proverbs
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
-John Ruskin
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
-Tennessee Williams
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower!
It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.
Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars
the flowers of the heaven.
-A.J. Balfour
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
-John Lancaster Spalding
God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. ~Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval (God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.)
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
-Abram L. Urban
None can have a healthy love for flowers
unless he loves the wild ones.
-Forbes Watson
It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses,
we must plant more roses.
-George Eliot
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
-Marcel Proust
At dawn I asked the lotus,
'What is the meaning of life?'
Slowly she opened her hand
with nothing in it.
-Debra Woolard Bender
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking;
but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
-Vita Sackville-West
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
-Indian Proverb
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody.
Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life.
-R. Search
The nature of This Flower is to bloom.
-Alice Walker
Flowers are happy things.
-P G Wodehouse
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
-John Updike
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
-Edvard Munch
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
-Mary Sarton
The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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