Dandelions Quotes

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Worry, My Smile, Lost

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moon, Sun, Changed

  "Lolita".

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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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• 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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• Dandelions don't tell no lies.

  Mick Jagger

  Lying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

  Heather O'Neill

  Song, Believe, Garden

  Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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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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