FLOWERS QUOTES II
quotations about flowers
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
Oh! To be a flower
Nodding in the sun,
Bending, then upspringing
As the breezes run.
AMY LOWELL
"Song", A Dome of Many-coloured Glass
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Passion flower
Sent from the blue above
You're a flower of love
Passion flower
Free as a star in flight
Laughing through the night
DUKE ELLINGTON
"Passion Flower"
As we walk through the cemetery, and see the well-kept grave, and the many pretty flowers growing and laid thereon, is not it a token that he or she who lies beneath, was loved while here on earth, and is not forgotten now that they are no longer present in form?
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Flowers", Short Essays
Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children--honoured as the jewellery of God only by them--when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Farewell deare flowers, sweetly your time ye spent,
Fit, while ye liv’d, for smell or ornament,
And after death for cures.
GEORGE HERBERT
Life
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
THOMAS GRAY
"An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
HENRI MATISSE
attributed, The Colour of Love
The soft, bristled flowers are like mini red fireworks dotting the forest.
TIFFANY HILL
"How the Lyons Estate on Big Island is preserving Hawaii's ohia lehua tree", Hawaii Magazine, October 17, 2018
Open blooms like ballet-skirted ladies.
JOHN STEINBECK
The Long Valley
Flowers are like small lanterns glowing on the forest floor.
STEVE MUELLER
"Ranger Steve's Nature Niche: Spring Progression", Rockford Squire, May 31, 2019
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
To the Dandelion
The dandelion. Where will you find another prodigal so merry or so golden or so wasteful, pouring out treasure down the sides of hills and cupping it in valleys?
MAXWELL ANDERSON
High Tor
Flowers are words which even a babe may understand.
ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE
The Singing of Birds
Buying flowers sounds easy, until towers of flowers are staring back at you (labeled with scientific names almost nobody actually uses), as you try to remember your significant other's favorite color and question why these things are so expensive when they'll be dead in two weeks.
DIANA MOSKOVITZ
"A Complete Guide to Buying Her Flowers", Deadspin, August 27, 2015
A flower's just a seed when it's young
And every flower's reaching, every flower's reaching
Every flower's reaching for the sun.
PETER, PAUL & MARY
"Every Flower", Such Is Love
Many a lovely flower is growing far from the haunts of man, but its sweetness is not lost or wasted, the dazzling little humming-bird or the honey-eater is not far off, and loves it.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Flowers", Short Essays
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
CORITA KENT
Moments of 1984