Flower Garden Quotes

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Children, Flower

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Kindness, Flower

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• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Nature, Flower, Tree

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• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.

  Sophie Scholl

  Flower, Garden, Rooms

  Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl (1987). “At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl”, Harpercollins

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• A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Flower

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• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Flower, Attractive Things

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.212, New York Review of Books

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• So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

  Mary Howitt

  Peace, Flower, Men

  Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11

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• I must have flowers, always, and always.

  Claude Monet

  Flower

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Success, Appreciation

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Flower, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Garden, Religion, Pulling Weeds

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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