Flowers Quotes
21 quotations about Flowers
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now.
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
Flowers are happy things.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Authors on Flowers
William Blake
Dutch Proverb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sigmund Freud
German Proverb
Jean Giraudoux
Oliver Wendell Holmes
D. H. Lawrence
Thomas Moore
Gerard De Nerval
Georgia O'Keeffe
Theodore Roethke
Arabella Smith
R. Southwell
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde
Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse
William Wordsworth