Flowers Quotes

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

I like perfume and flowers.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!'

At my age flowers scare me.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

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

Wild flowers grow where they will.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Flowers are happy things.