Flower Quotes (275)
Quotes and citations about flower
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.. view
By: mr-john
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!.. view
By: Edward Abbey
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them... view
By: Lyman Abbott
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure.. view
By: Joseph Addison
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed... view
By: James Allen
The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple... view
By: Pedro Almodovar
I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity... view
By: Pedro Almodovar
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower... view
By: Hans Christian Andersen
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower... view
By: Hans Christian Anderson
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living... view
By: Ursula Andress
I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet... view
By: Jennifer Aniston
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses... view
By: Louis Aragon
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition... view
By: Honore de Balzac
A young bride is like a plucked flower.. view
By: Honore de Balzac
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside... view
By: Honore de Balzac
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms... view
By: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child... view
By: Drew Barrymore
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower.. view
By: Matsuo Basho
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers... view
By: Matsuo Basho
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers... view
By: Henry Walter Bates
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars... view
By: Charles A. Beard
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers... view
By: Max Beckmann
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into... view
By: Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy... view
By: Henry Ward Beecher
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging... view
By: Alan Bennett
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet... view
By: Jeremy Bentham
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air... view
By: Georges Bernanos
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower... view
By: Juliette Binoche
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening... view
By: Richard Blackmore
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour... view
By: William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour... view
By: William Blake
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower... view
By: Marion Zimmer Bradley
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids... view
By: Beau Bridges
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show... view
By: Jacob Bronowski
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show... view
By: Jacob Bronowski
Happiness is the natural flower of duty... view
By: Phillips Brooks
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers... view
By: Ruth Brown
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get... view
By: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nothing makes you feel that you've overstayed your welcome like a flower arrangement that has withered and died... view
By: Holly Brubach
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at... view
By: William C. Bryant