Flower Quotes - Page 17

• In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Garden, Literature, Charismatic

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• Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Positivity, Mind

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• Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

  Dov Davidoff

  Appreciate, Bugs

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• From all kinds of flowers,
  Seek teachings everywhere,
  Like a deer that finds
  A quiet place to graze,
  Seek Seclusion to digest
  All you have gathered. . .

  Namkhai Norbu

  Teaching, Deer, Quiet

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• Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

  Alfred Noyes

  Towers, Tolls, Fading

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Autumn, Years, Majestic

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1912). “Hours of Gladness”

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• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

  Jean Genet

  Fragility, Delicacy, Prison

  "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.

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• Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

  William Wordsworth

  Home, Years, Long

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.365

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Gratitude, Men

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• It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Happiness, Weed, Work

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

  David Simon

  Loss, Yield, Giving

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• People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, People, Giving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Smell, Wonder, Take Time

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• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Sunset, Funeral

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Retirement, Women, Rose

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.81

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• Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

  Craig Stone

  Block, Sun, Machines

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• Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Growing Up, Waiting, Grandfather

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

  1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published 1842).

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• Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Modesty, Virtue, Breasts

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fire, Air, Dust

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• Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Pet, Doe

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• A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Truth, Shy, Vines

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• Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Uplifting, Passion

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.

  Jonas Mekas

  Color, Smell, Support

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

  William Wordsworth

  Simple, Purpose, Veils

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.123

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