Flower Quotes - Page 11

• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Book, Garden

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• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Pride, Gold

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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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

  Dream, Believe, Sleep

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• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  John Muir

  Nature, Power, Garden

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

  Ariel Sharon

  Political, Born, Farms

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Grandchildren

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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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

  Sunshine, Grandchildren, Long

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

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• I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

  Caryl Churchill

  If I Could, Ifs

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Long, Thumbs

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

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• To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Blow, Garden

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

  Christina Rossetti

  Ifs

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Pro Life, Abortion

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• We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Hate, Butterfly

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• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Children, Caring

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

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

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• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  Eddie Cantor

  Marriage, Wedding, Sunshine

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

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• As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

  Edward Thomas

  Dust, Losing, Lost

  'Tall Nettles' (1917)

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• Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Prayer, Writing

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Thinking, May, Littles

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Stars, Sunshine

  "A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit". Book by Jack Canfield (p. 188), September 1, 2012.

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• A weed is but an unloved flower.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Weed, Acceptance, Garden

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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• If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.

  Marcel Proust

  Nature, Garden, Blue

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• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
  Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Rose, Summer Nights

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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