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Flowers Quotes

  • Oct 24, 2021
  • 4 min read

Updated: Mar 18, 2022

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse


If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett


Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Take time to smell the roses.

Proverb


What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!

Roland R Kemler


Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Honore de Balzac


If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.

Matshona Dhliwayo


A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.

Terri Guillemets


Place a bouquet of flowers on the table and everything will taste twice as good.

Michael Pollan


Flowers don’t tell, they show.

Stephanie Skeem


Flowers bring joy where there is sadness, whether in an abundant floral arch or a few stems in a cone of paper. They also smell nice.

Harriet de Winton


Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.

Dr SunWolf


Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Luther Burbank


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


Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan


She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.

Erin Hanson


Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.



Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

Jim Carrey


Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Lady Bird Johnson


Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Zen Shin


Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

Robert Leighton


Every flower must grow through dirt.

Laurie Jean Sennott


Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.

Shannon Mullen


Every flower blooms in its own time.

Ken Petti


The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.

Ecouchard Le Brun


A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.

Matshona Dhliwayo


Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.

Luther Burbank


Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert


A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.

Matshona Dhliwayo


In joy and in sadness, flowers are our constant friends.



Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Audrey Hepburn


Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.

Steve Maraboli


Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Clare Ansberry


A world of grief and pain

flowers bloom—

even then.

Kobayashi Issa


Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Japanese Proverb


A little flower that blooms in May, a lovely sunset at the end of a day, someone helping a stranger along the way, that's heaven to me.

Sam Cooke


Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent


Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

Lady Bird Johnson


Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen


I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

D Antoinette Foy


Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.

Shannon Mullen


You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda


Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Jeremy Bentham


Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


I must have flowers, always, and always.

Claude Monet


A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde


One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

Susan Wittig Albert


Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.

Edwin Curran


Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Helen Keller


A flower is a smile from heaven.



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