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
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
Values such as holding a door open for a woman, helping a mother off a train with a pushchair or up an escalator, worrying what time my daughter will be home and whether she is escorted, buying flowers and paying for dinner, etc.
Mike Newell
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
Margery Allingham
I've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried. [on Cherie Blair]
Tony Blair
Flowers are happy things.
P G Wodehouse
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
Reginald Heber
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
But beauty faded has no second spring. (The First Pastoral)
Ambrose Philips
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot
Ben Jonson
They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow
Bernard Malamud
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?]
Eric Johnston
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran
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
You can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. [to a line judge, 1980 US Open]
John McEnroe
Throughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
Emma Stansfield
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
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Henry L Mencken
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
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
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
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
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
If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
Joyce Chapman
I've heard them lilting, at the ewe milking.
Lasses a'lilting, before dawn of day;
But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning;
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. (The Flowers of the Forest)
Jane Elliott
Where shall we make her grave?
Oh! where the wild flowers wave
In the free air!
When shower and singing-bird
'Midst the young leaves are heard,
There - lay her there!
Felicia Hemans
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