| Author |
Quotes |
| Alice Cary | The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride: The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums Are drooping heavy-eyed |
| Andrew Marvell | Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. |
| Claude Monet | I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. |
| Corita Kent | Flowers grow out of dark moments. |
| Edna Ferber | Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light. Purple violets for the mouth, Breathing perfumes west and south; And a sword of flashing lilies, Holden ready for the fight. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,-- And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden-close; Her tears, to the wind-flower,--his blood, to the rose. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine. |
| French Proverb | Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. |
| Georges Bernanos | Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. |
| Georgia OKeeffe | I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. |
| Gerard De Nerval | Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. |
| Isaac Watts | A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. |
| John Byrom | Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue? Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile? That meadow, those daisies, why do they not smile? |
| Kahlil Gibran | A root is a flower that disdains fame |
| Luther Burbank | Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. |
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