Quotations About Flowers
82Flowers have given a lot of inspiration to people from all walks of life, whether you are a florist, a gardener, a painter, a photographer or a writer, one can draw inspirations from flowers.
On this hub I would like to share with you some of my favourite quotations about flowers from the minds of great leaders, painters, great men and women. Mainly inspiring and positive affirmation on the beauty of flowers, also some thoughful proverbs about flowers from different cultures.
If you have a favourite quote about flowers, please feel free to add it on the comment box.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
Where flowers bloom so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
- Kahlil Gibran
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers also feed the soul. - The Koran
We have much to hope from the flowers. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends. - Persian Proverb
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. -Japanese Proverbs
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. - Chinese proverb
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. - Indian Proverb
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. ~ Chinese proverb
April showers bring forth May flowers. ~ English Proverb
Flowers are our greatest silent friends. ~ Jim Brown
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman
Bloom where you are planted. - Mary Engelbreit
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~ Henri Matisse
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. ~ Georgia O'Keefe
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ~ Sigmund Freud
Flowers are love's truest language ~Park Benjamin (1809-1864)
Friends are flowers than never fade. ~ Anonymous
What's in a name? that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. ~ Charles Dickens
I've always thought my flowers had souls. ~ Myrtle Reed
The flowers take the tears of weeping night, and give them to the sun for the day's delight. ~ Joseph Cotter
Let us open our leaves like a flower and be passive and receptive. -John Keats
If friends were flowers, I'd pick you. ~ Anonymous
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done. ~ Buddha
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ~ Abraham Lincoln
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it's really so lovely & heart touching...............
the proverbs were realy useful
it looks so nice....
These qoutes are nice bt u should add simple and short proverbs.
Nice to see the quran mentioning this fact
blossoming,blooming brilliant flower
pretty nice
Amaaaaaaaaaasing qoutes!
Thanks for the post, really very nice proverbs!!!!!!!!!
Awesome
i reallyyy loke the quote of charles dackay
attention:PEPETTE 11 months ago
I saw a quote on a sign in a San Diego garden about flowers-with name Kuzuko ? as the source -but I cant remember it-only remember that I wanted to remember it. Does anybody out there know what I am trying to remember?
the quote you are trying to remember is the following:
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Kozuko Okakura
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other !!! - Just Great...Thanks for the collection
Everybody cuts the flower because everyone likes but when ur cut the flower they feel unhappy. They wants only falls on soldiers tomb
great..........flowers do really have a beatiful image when seen at or even read about......
thanks for bringing the whole globe to help us know some beatiful flower quotes
its good collection which tells about your inner personality(nature lover)
...absolutely lovely display and presentation of flowers - and enhanced by wonderful quotes - which brings to mind my own personal quote about your hubs -
"Your hubs are like perennials - they just keep growing and growing and we keep enjoying and enjoying!"
Beautiful flower pictures. They look so real. Flowers make you feel better just looking at them. Thanks putting them in this hub.
i like these all quotations actually i also want to be a poet
Striking quotes...they helped me a lot 2 prepare my essay...I OWE U...
really very nice proverbs
beautiful quotations!!!!!!!!!! i love it.
wow.. what beautiful flowers. I love'm
just trying to find a quote to put on my art project...its very simply a blue board with a pink flower painted on it any ideas i would appreciate it
thanks
ur phrases are lovely and i liked them
What a nice site! 'It is hard to imagine this planet of ours without flowers. Just watch a honey bee. They go around embracing each flower with such affection and intensity'.
I stumbled upon your site while looking for something , very nice pics. I'll be back Felicia
i like all the proverbs given here. that specially flowers and friend than never fade.i love all flowers.
It is really hilarious to be among flowers and flowery quotes.
Hi Lisa, thanks for that verse , it is beautiful. MM
such a beautiful hub. I have book with poems only of flowers. I must look for it and probably post one or two for you. In the meantime here is one from the Song of Songs chap 2 verses 1 - 2.
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.
Thanks G-MA, I always love your visit. I have been taking photos since I got my digital camera 2 fyears ago and flowers are my favourite subject.
Hi Mr. M I will be making a hub about roses soon. I just can't find the pictures....
See you guys later...
MM
great hub on flowers.
I am a rose lover.
A long time ago I knew a poem on a rose. Can not remember it on the spur of the moment
Very nice my dear...I like especially the "Indian proverb" all the floweres of all yesterdays are in the seeds of tomorrow..I hope i got that correct.. also the chinese one Flowers leave frangance on the hand that bestows them...lovely pics too G-Ma :O)
Sindhu.n 7 weeks ago
really good