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Flowers Quotes


These are some of the best 'Flowers' quotations and sayings.


And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of God on his world about us. - He has inscribed his thoughts in these marvellous hieroglyphics which sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeking to understand.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

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

One thing is certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its heavenly Maker.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt fully to understand.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound? - A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle, - oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.