Flowers quotes

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◆ The earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson100

◆ People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

- Iris Murdoch99

◆ Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

- Georgia O'Keeffe99

◆ Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

- Heinrich Heine99

◆ Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi.

- Moderata Fonte99

◆ God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

- Lurlene McDaniel99

◆ Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

- Susan Polis Schutz99

◆ She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...

- Arundhati Roy99

◆ For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.

- Roman Payne99

◆ In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.

- Kakuzō Okakura99

◆ Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.

- Steve Maraboli99