A flower, when offered in
the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
?Isaac Watts
A kiss without a hug is like a
flower without the fragrance.
?Maltese Proverb
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
?Kahlil Gibran
A wedding is just like a
funeral except that you get
to smell your own flowers.
?Grace Hansen
Art is the unceasing effort to
compete with the beauty of flowers -
and never succeeding.
?Marc Chagall
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue,
is as a flower without perfume.
?French Proverb
Big doesn't necessarily mean better.
Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
?Edna Ferber
Earth laughs in flowers.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
?Gerard De Nerval
Fair flowers that are not gather'd
in their prime rot and consume
themselves in little time.
?William Shakespeare
Flowers always make people better,
happier and more helpful; they are sunshine,
food and medicine to the soul.
?Luther Burbank
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
?Corita Kent
Flowers. . . are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues all
the utilities of the world.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
?Andrew Marvell
I am following Nature without being
able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having
become a painter to flowers.
?Claude Monet
I hate flowers -- I paint them
because they're cheaper than
models and they don't move.
?Georgia O'Keeffe
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily
it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a
spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think,
when we commit a fault, however small,
each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.
?St. Teresa of Avila
Little things seem nothing, but they
give peace, like those meadow flowers
which individually seem odorless
but all together perfume the air.
?Georges Bernanos
Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
?William C. Bryant
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
