Quotations
Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
Rudyard Kipling
Where have all the flowers gone? (Title of song, 1961)
Pete Seeger
At my age flowers scare me
George Burns
The countryside is incredibly boring. There's lots of shagging, lots of murders, lots of sarcasm, lots of treachery, and lots of bad cooking, but it's all hidden. You've got all the space and the flowers, but it's dull!
Tom Baker
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening [on his garden]
Terence Stamp
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
Reginald Heber
I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know...
Eliza Dushku
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
You can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. [to a line judge, 1980 US Open]
John McEnroe
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul Richter
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
Paul Westerberg
I've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried. [on Cherie Blair]
Tony Blair
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.
Jennifer Aniston
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot
Ben Jonson
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Mary Sarton
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. [a variation of an oft used quote]
Grace Hansen
I have seen flowers come out in stony places,
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the Gold Cup won by the worst horse at the races.
John Masefield
Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.
Barbara Cheney
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John Gardner
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa
I'm overwhelmed by all the flowers people sent me. [after being attacked]
John Savident
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
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