Flowers Quotes

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

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.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

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

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

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

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.