Flower Quotes - page 2

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. (John Lennon)
Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth. View quote
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. View quote
George Carlin
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. View quote
Robert Frost
A simple maiden in her flower; Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies Life 's a short summer, man a flower He diesalas how soon he dies. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. View quote
Dylan Thomas
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. View quote
John Dryden
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. View quote
Beatrix Potter
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. View quote
Alice Walker
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. (Robert Browning)
All art is quite useless. So is a flower. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. View quote
William Cowper
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. View quote
John Muir
The Moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. View quote
William Blake
And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. View quote
William Wordsworth
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. View quote
William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright; Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour; Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find; Strength in what remains behin. View quote
William Wordsworth
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. (William Wordsworth)
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. View quote
Martha Graham
A flower, when offered in the bud, Is no vain sacrifice. View quote
Isaac Watts
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. View quote
Isaac Watts
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. View quote
Max Müller