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
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
Throughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
Emma Stansfield
You can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. [to a line judge, 1980 US Open]
John McEnroe
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
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
It is not in fighting that my God delights but in causing the trees to grow, and in adorning the plains with grass and flowers. He loves not the proud warrior nor the hunter, but the lowly and the good
Standish O'Grady
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root,
As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot
Ben Jonson
I'm overwhelmed by all the flowers people sent me. [after being attacked]
John Savident
Flowers are happy things.
P G Wodehouse
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
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
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
They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow
Bernard Malamud
I've never sent her flowers. If I sent her flowers, she would get worried. [on Cherie Blair]
Tony Blair
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening [on his garden]
Terence Stamp
Where have all the flowers gone? (Title of song, 1961)
Pete Seeger
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
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
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
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
People are too myopic about making money and they get disappointed fast. If they haven't sold enough flowers they say: 'I'm out of here'.
Larry Chase
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
Reginald Heber
At my age flowers scare me
George Burns
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Henry L Mencken
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
Margery Allingham
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
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
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
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
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
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
But beauty faded has no second spring. (The First Pastoral)
Ambrose Philips
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