Flowers sayings

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◆ It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

- Colette99

◆ If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .

- Kurt Vonnegut99

◆ If flowers were boogers, I'd pick a few big ones and flick them on your grave.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ A weed is but an unloved flower.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox99

◆ What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

- John Lubbock99

◆ I must have flowers, always, and always.

- Claude Monet99

◆ I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay99

◆ Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

- Gemma Malley99

◆ who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

- J.D. Salinger99

◆ Flowers and fear are a lot alike. For one, flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two, I'm currently trying to grow both in my garden.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

- Victor Hugo99