Flowers Quotes
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!Jules Verne, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.Henry Ward Beeche
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.H. L. Mencken
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.Hellen Kelle
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires (early book)
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.Chinese Prove
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.Edvard Munch
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.Leigh Hunt
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.Mother Theresa
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.Lewis Thomas
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.Martin Luthe
No path of flowers leads to glory.Jean de La Fontaine
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
Flowers feed the soul.Mohammad
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.Thich Nhat Hanh
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.Logan Pearsall Smith
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.Annie Sullivan
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet - Smelling flower.Jean Paul Richte