Quotes About Flowers

Flowers are the sweetest thing God ever made and forgot to put a soul in.  ~ Henry Ward Beckford


People from a planet without flowers would think we must be made with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~ Iris Murdoch


The earth laughs in flowers.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.  ~ Walt Whitman


When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~ Chinese proverb


With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?  ~ Oscar Wilde


The perfumes are the feelings of the flowers.  ~ Heinrich Hein


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


Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.  ~ George Carlin


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


The flower in the vase still smiles, but no longer laughs.  ~ Malcolm de Chazal


You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.  ~ Pablo Neruda


Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.  ~ Rumi


If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.  ~ Alfred Tennyson


One of the attractive things about flowers is their magnificient reserve.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.  ~ George Carlin