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
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear (Flowers for the Judge)
Margery Allingham
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
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'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
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Mother Teresa
Where have all the flowers gone? (Title of song, 1961)
Pete Seeger
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
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
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
You can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. [to a line judge, 1980 US Open]
John McEnroe
They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow
Bernard Malamud
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
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran
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
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
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil
Reginald Heber
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
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
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Henry L Mencken
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
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
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
Flowers are happy things.
P G Wodehouse
I'm overwhelmed by all the flowers people sent me. [after being attacked]
John Savident
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
At my age flowers scare me
George Burns
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
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