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
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening [on his garden]
Terence Stamp
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
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
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
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Henry L Mencken
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow
Bernard Malamud
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
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
At my age flowers scare me
George Burns
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
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
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 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
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
Reginald Heber
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
Margery Allingham
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
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
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
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
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
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
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
Throughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
Emma Stansfield
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
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
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