The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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.
Henry Walter Bates

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

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

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

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

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine

There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

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

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

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
Sharon Stone

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

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Walter de La Mare

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
Richard Le Gallienne

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Richard H. Stoddard