Flower Blossom Quotes:

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

- Srikumar Rao

topic: Flower, Bees, Flower Blossom

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

- Mao Zedong

source: 1957 Speech, Peking, 27 Feb.

topic: Art, Flower, School, Flourishing, Flower Blossom

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: The Scarlet Letter ch. 14 (1850)

topic: Flower, Black, May, Flower Blossom

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

- Lady Bird Johnson

topic: Flower, Doe, Blooming Flower, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nature, Philosophical, Flower, Enough Said, Just Living Life

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Happiness, Flower, Joy, Flower Blossom

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Flower, Today, Tomorrow, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Spring Flowers, Spring May, Spring Season, Winter To Spring

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

- Gerard De Nerval

topic: Nature, Flower, Tree, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

source: Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Blossoming

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

source: Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, Inspirational Flower, Wildflowers

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Success, Appreciation, Contentment And Peace, Flower Garden

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

- Okakura Kakuzo

source: Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

topic: Flower, Sadness, Garden, Joy And Sadness, Inspirational Gardening

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Nature, Flower, Blossoming, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

- Zenkei Shibayama

source: Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.110, Tuttle Publishing

topic: Life, Flower, Fall, Blooming, Blooming Flower

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Inspiring, Hope, Spring, May Flowers, Spring Day

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

- Ikkyu

source: Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

topic: Spring, Flower, Tree, Spring Flowers, Spring Poems

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Boyfriend, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational True Love

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

- Jean Giraudoux

source: Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

topic: Flower, Example, Inspirational Flower, Blossoming, Wildflowers

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

- Gerald Massey

source: Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.20

topic: Sweet, Flower, Home, Flower Blossom, Babyhood

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Beauty, Beautiful, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

- Max Muller

source: Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

topic: Love, Inspirational, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Time Love

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.

- Rajneesh

topic: Letting Go, Flower, Compassion, Flower Blossom

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

- William Wordsworth

topic: Flower, Air, Breathe, Inspirational Flower, Spring Flowers

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

- Iris Murdoch

source: Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Nature, Flower, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine, May Flowers, Flower Garden

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

topic: Nature, Flower, Sun, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

- Russell M. Nelson

topic: God, Flower, Heaven, Flower Blossom, Born To Die

When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within you. The sun rises within you and sets within you. The earth moves within you. The flowers blossom within you.

- Rajneesh

topic: Stars, Flower, Moving, Ecstatic, Flower Blossom

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

- Andre Gide

topic: Rose, Want, Respect Her, Iranian, Wildflowers

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- Claude Monet

topic: Art, Nature, Flower, Mother Nature, Blossoming

There are no accidents in Nature,

- John Muir

topic: Accidents, Flower Blossom

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

- John Ruskin

topic: Flower, Firsts, Delight, Summer Flower, Flora

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

- Beverley Nichols

topic: Flower, Overcoming, Defeat, Summer Flower, Delectable

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Sweet, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Star Crossed Lovers

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Flower, Long, Spontaneous, Wildflowers, Wild Free

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Thinking, Flower Blossom, Bluebells

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Life, Nature, Flower, Blooming Flower, Funny Valentines Day

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

topic: Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren, Wildflowers, Wild Free

When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.

- Rajneesh

topic: Flower, Moving, Silence, Flower Blossom

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

- Daniel O'Connell

source: Daniel O'Connell (1854). “The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M. P.”, p.81

topic: Flower, Land, Faults, Flower Blossom

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

- Lope de Vega

topic: Life, Flower, Book, Simple Things, Wildflowers

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

- Kay Ryan

source: Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Flower, Color, Hue, Flower Blossom

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

- Allen Ginsberg

source: Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Flower, Garden, Names, Summer Flower, Flower Blossom