"Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth's lips spoken without sound."
Edwin Curran
38 FAMOUS QUOTES · FLOWERS
Read 38 famous flowers quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth's lips spoken without sound."
Edwin Curran
“I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.”Zac Posen
“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The earth laughs in flowers."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour."
William Blake
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet
"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."
Lady Bird Johnson
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Nobody sees a flower, really; it is so small; we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
Luther Burbank
"Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers."Rumi
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, though to itself it only live and die."William Shakespeare
“The earth laughs in flowers.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
Luther Burbank
“Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.”
John Milton
“Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram.”William Shakespeare
“My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 6:2)
“He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.”
Celia Thaxter
“The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand.”
Francis Bacon
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, one who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, when he called the flowers, so blue and golden, stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The fairest flowers o' the season are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors.”William Shakespeare
“I have many beautiful flowers, but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.”Oscar Wilde
“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.”
William Wordsworth