Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful, they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
- Luther Burbank
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. ~Andrew Mason
Abraham Lincoln,. "DIE WHEN I
MAY, I WANT IT SAID OF ME BY THOSE WHO KNEW ME BEST, THAT I ALWAYS
PLUCKED A THISTLE AND PLANTED A FLOWER WHERE I THOUGHT A FLOWER WOULD
GROW".
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman
The
flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts
well out of proportion to their size. ~Gertrude S. Wister
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? ~Maurice Maeterlinck
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we
haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ~Susan Polis Shutz
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. ~Robert Leighton
I like to think a flower opens itself to outgrow its plantedness. That it yearns to be carried away. ~Author Unknown
There
is rosemary, that's for remembrance:
and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
William Shakespeare
Remember
that the most beautiful things in the world are the
most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
God has sown his name on the heavens in glittering
stars; but on earth he planteth his name by tender flowers.
Jean Paul Richter
Flowers and fruits are
always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a
ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay
natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature:
they are like music heard out of a work-house.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~Tennessee Williams
Earth
Many people have never
learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow
unnoticed. For instance, when you walk outside and look down at your
feet, you may see tiny flowers nestled in the moss and clover hiding
under a curled fern. Most people just step on them. I paint them.
ERIKA JUST, Flowers
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet
laughs in flowers. - Ralph
What this old world needs is more
bouquets handed around to folks when they are alive and kicking. Flowers
don't do a dead one much good.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs
Waldo Emerson
- Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
- The flower will bloom another year.
- Weep no more! O weep no more!
- Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
JOHN KEATS, "Faery Songs"
I'd go without food if I could have a flower.
CARYL CHURCHILL, A Dream Play
"The cry of 'Flower Power' echoes through the land. We shall not wilt. Let a thousand flowers bloom."
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