FLOWERS

Famous Quotes

Quote: To create a little flower is the labor of ages. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

Quote: Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. Author: Luther Burbank 1849-1926, American Horticulturist

Quote: These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. Author: Pedro Calder=n de la Barca 1600-1681, Spanish Playwright

Quote: 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 the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. Author: Lydia M. Child 1802-1880, American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor

Quote: Earth laughs in flowers. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

Quote: The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Author: Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944, French Diplomat, Author

Quote: The Amen of nature is always a flower. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

Quote: The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. Author: D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author

Quote: 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone. Author: Thomas Moore 1779-1852, Irish Poet

Quote: Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. Author: Gerard De Nerval 1808-1855, French Novelist, Poet

Quote: I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Author: Georgia O'Keeffe American painter

Quote: When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. Author: Georgia O'Keeffe American painter

Quote: Roses fall, but the thorns remain. Author: Dutch Proverb Sayings of Dutch Origin

Quote: Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin

Quote: Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these. Author: Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859, British Author

Quote: Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle. Author: Edgar Quinet 1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician

Quote: Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. Author: Theodore Roethke 1908-1963, American Poet

Quote: Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now. Author: Arabella Smith

Quote: We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. Author: R. Southwell

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

Quote: One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet

Quote: Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: Flowers are happy things. Author: Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse 1881-1975, British Novelist

Quote: The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet

Quote: To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet

Quote: Weeds are just flowers out of place. Author: unknown unknown

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