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Flowers Quotes

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

– The Bible

Song of Solomon 2:10-12

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

– Bette Davis

I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things.

– Bai Ling

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

– Ariel Sharon

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones – maybe only the stones – understood.

– Annie Dillard

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

– Alexa Von Tobel

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

– Andres Segovia

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

– Charles Caleb Colton

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she’s real funny, but lately it’s all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain’t funny. No giggles there.

– Andy Richter

If you’re a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I’m never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don’t buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.

– Alison Brie

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market – anything to personalize the environment.

– Chloe Sevigny

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks’ rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

– Anna Neagle

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

– Beverley Nichols

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

– C. Northcote Parkinson

I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

– Barbara Mandrell

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

– Beau Bridges

I love sunflowers. They’re one of my favorite flowers.

– Bethany Mota

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

– Andrew Weil

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

– Craig Brown

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

– Bernard Malamud

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

– Claude Monet

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx’s grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

– Alastair Campbell

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

– Augustus Hare

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

– Chanakya

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

– Conor Oberst

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

– Auguste Rodin

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

– Ada Lovelace

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

– Chuck Jones

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

– Corita Kent

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

– Claude Monet

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