Inspirational Flower Quotes

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

  Iris Murdoch

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

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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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• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Flower, Carpe Diem

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Flower, Blooming, Blossoming

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Nature, Flower, Blooming

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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• I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

  1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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• I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

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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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• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Animal, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.100, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

  Anna Held

  Flower, Bouquets, Should

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• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

  Phillips Brooks

  Happiness, Happy, Flower

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mothers Day, Mom, Sweet

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

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• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Power

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

  Dogen

  Weed, Buddhist, War

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• The Amen of nature is always a flower.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Nature, Flower, Blossoming

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria

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• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

  Henri Matisse

  Positive, Beautiful, Art

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

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• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Nature, Flower, Tree

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