Best Quotes About Flowers (Top 37)
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The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
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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
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Edna Ferber
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst
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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
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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 their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
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No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
Thomas Hood
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman
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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
George Bernard Shaw
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
Bill Bailey
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Chanakya
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
Elizabeth Goudge
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
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Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
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Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Brian Clough
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Annie Dillard
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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Andrew Marvell
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Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Christopher Smart
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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
John Milton
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
Isaac Watts