Dandelions Quotes

• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beautiful, Green, Golden

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• What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Spring, Inspiration

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Keys, Roots, Long

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• If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

  Andrew Mason

  Flower, Would Be, Bouquets

  Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.46, Trafford Publishing

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• No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Cosmos

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8420, Delphi Classics

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• I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

  Nhat Hanh

  Worry, My Smile, Lost

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• If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

  Robert Bateman

  Worry, Tree, Magic

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• Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moon, Sun, Changed

  "Lolita".

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• Dandelions don't tell no lies.

  Mick Jagger

  Lying

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• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beautiful, Noble, Green

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• Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Flower, Medicine, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

  Celia Thaxter

  Vanishing, Ghost, Changed

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

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• I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Life, Wind, Pieces

  Sarah J. Maas (2015). “A Court of Thorns and Roses”, p.174, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.

  Elizabeth May

  Strong, Giving Up, Miracle

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• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Nature, Monday

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• It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Iron, Giving, Justice

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• The dandelion's pallid tube
  Astonishes the grass,
  And winter instantly becomes
  An infinite alas.

  Emily Dickinson

  Winter, Infinite, Grass

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1368, Harvard University Press

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• So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

  John Updike

  Rotting, Too Much, Madness

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.120, Random House

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• Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Flower, Balls

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• Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

  Carl Sagan

  Dream, Imagination, World

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• The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Morning, Night, Men

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use”

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• Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.

  Katherine Paterson

  Life, Puff, Littles

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

  Robert Fulghum

  Weed, Opportunity, Garden

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• The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and exalted-a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical-causing our faces to crack into a smile-and deeply touching-causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.

  Dawna Markova

  Teacher, Kindness, Eye

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• Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.

  P.W. Catanese

  Wind, Ideas, Together

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