Flower Quotes - Page 8

• Break open
  A cherry tree
  And there are no flowers;
  But the spring breeze
  Brings forth myriad blossoms.

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Spring, Sunshine

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

  Jane Austen

  Nature, Perfect, Relaxation

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.85

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• Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

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• Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Degenerates

  "The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte" by Napoleon Bonaparte, (p. 148), 1868.

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Love You, Nuts

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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sweet, Spring, Garden

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• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Garden, Mind, Self Improvement

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• Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, People, London

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.47, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Overcoming

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• When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

  John Foxe

  Christian, Heaven, Crowns

  John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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• 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.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Peace, Cities

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

  Robert Burns

  Violet, Snowdrops, Woodland

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sunshine, Science, Engineering

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• 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.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Heartbreak, Morning, Sleep

  "A las flores". Poem by Pedro Calderon de la Barca,

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• I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Children, Want

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• Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love Is, Tree, Lost Friendship

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Rose, History

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• Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

  Brian Jacques

  Nature, Memories, Grief

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity humming like a bee, a communion tasting of flowers, a way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips!

  Edmond Rostand

  Taken, Heart, Kissing

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Careers, Two, Taoism

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• Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.

  Bertran de Born

  Sweet, Easter, Leafs

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• A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Stars, Garden

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Path, Earth, Thorns

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