Sunflower Quotes - Page 2

• …we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)

  Allen Ginsberg

  Beautiful, Blessed, Accomplishment

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• I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

  Miranda Kerr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

  Jean Paul

  Sun

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• Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Attention, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.11, A&C Black

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• A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Wise, Men

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• Restless sunflower; cease to move.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Moving, Restless, Cease

  "Magico Prodigioso". Play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 1637.

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• Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.

  Unknown

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• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unhappy, Dawn, Portraits

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• I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Enthusiasm, Painting, Bigs

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• I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

  Halle Berry

  Tattoo, Darkness, Wish

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• When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Photography, Men, Cameras

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

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• The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

  Thomas More

  Inspirational, Heart, Never Forget

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• Sunflowers are like people to me.

  Joan Mitchell

  People, Imagination

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• We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Kind

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• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  Edna Ferber

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

  Richard Brautigan

  Men, Fables, Misuse

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• Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Philosophy, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

  Unknown

  Autumn

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• I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Butterfly, Swimming

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• The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
  And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
  And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
  Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
  And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Spring, Rain

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• The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

  Thomas Moore

  Friendship, Heart, Reality

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Believe me, if all those endearing young charms'

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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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• Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Rose

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• A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

  Unknown

  Beautiful, Flower, Rose

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