Flower Quotes

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

Love, Live, Sunshine

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

Love, Teacher, Mother

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Knowledge, Spiritual

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

Love, Beautiful, May

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

Life, Mind, Thought

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Thought, Said

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Strength, Nothing, Find

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Heaven, Hands, Hold

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
John Lennon

Love, Sure, Grow

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

Spring, Second, Autumn

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Care, Children, Remember

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Life, Love, Honey

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Career, Two, Else

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Heart, Friend, Giving

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

Beauty, Her, Gather

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Willie Nelson

God, Government, Put

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Heaven, Hand, Hold

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

Creative, Often, Themselves

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver

Life, Wanted, Tell

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore

Envy, Single, Thorns

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom, Sunshine, Enough

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Time, Friend, Small

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, Nothing

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

Wife, Young, Guilty

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

Love, Give, Through

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

Thought, Reason, Wanted

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
William Wordsworth

Shy, Sweetest, Smells

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne

God, Art, Judge

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Happiness, Natural, Duty

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