Flower Blossom Quotes

• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

  Mao Zedong

  Art, Flower, School

  1957 Speech, Peking, 27 Feb.

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• Let the black flower blossom as it may!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Flower, Black, May

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 14 (1850)

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Flower, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Flower, Blooming, Blossoming

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• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Nature, Flower, Tree

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• When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Success, Appreciation

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• A flower blossoms for its own joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Flower, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

  Gerald Massey

  Baby, Sweet, Flower

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.20

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

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• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

  Max Muller

  Love, Inspirational, Couple

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

  Russell M. Nelson

  God, Flower, Heaven

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• To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

  Beverley Nichols

  Flower, Garden, Overcoming

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• Silently a flower blooms,
  In silence it falls away;
  Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
  The world of the flower, the whole of
  the world is blooming.
  This is the talk of the flower, the truth
  of the blossom;
  The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Life, Truth, Flower

  Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.110, Tuttle Publishing

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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

  Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Nature, Flower, Blooming

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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• People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Firsts, Delight

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