A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
Anna Held

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
John Mortimer

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
Francis Thompson

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
Thomas Nash

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Joseph Conrad

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.
Gerard De Nerval