Flower Quotes - Page 5

• Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Children, Bored

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• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spiritual, Intuition, Persistent

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• I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Dog, Long Walks

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• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Being Single, Envy

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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, Blooming, Blossoming

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

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• Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Juliet

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• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Past, Lasts

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Rose, Lovely Things

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

  Beverley Nichols

  Garden, Overcoming, Blossoming

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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  True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

  Philip Pullman

  True Love, Falling In Love, Responsibility

  "Common sense has much to learn from moonshine" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.

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• The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Simple, Rose

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• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Bees, Uninvited Guests

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• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Men, Bird

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Garden, Perfection

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

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Nature, Garden, Example

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Nature, Humanity, Would Be

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

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• From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

  Edvard Munch

  Death, I Hate You, Sunshine

  "Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.

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• Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Smell, Feelings

  Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1995). “The Harz journey”, Marsilio Pub

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• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Time

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

  Phillips Brooks

  Happiness, Happy, Natural

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

  Jane Austen

  Air, Unseen, Desert

  Jane Austen, Bharat Tandon (2012). “Emma: An Annotated Edition”, p.322, Harvard University Press

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