Quotes About Flowers

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles.

Then I see you, Standing under a spire of pale blue larkspur, With a basket of roses on your arm. You are cool, like silver, And you smile. I think the Canterbury bells are playing little tunes.

The petals numbered but degrade to prose Summer's triumphant poem of the rose.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Ferdinand took up some books: he found them to contain strange unintelligible characters, circles and lines, with many curious plates; and from the little he could read, they seemed to be works on alchemy; he was aware already that the old man had the reputation of a gold-maker. A lute was lying on the table, singularly overlaid with mother-of-pearl, and coloured wood; and representing birds and flowers in very splendid forms.

A fragrance of cold rose petals and copper. Like flowers in your bloody throat.

Jak kwiaty zdobi? ziemi? a gwiazdy niebo, tak Grecja zdobi ?wiat.

miraba como los rayos dorados del sol poniente iluminaban las flores multicolores. La hierba tenía un brillo rojizo y las rocas se encendían.

Las flores prefieren estar en el prado al sol y no en tu delantal

en otro lugar brillaba vivo el color de las azules gencianas

Wisteria and red-buds had followed, and then in mid-March the azaleas burst forth in gigantic pillows of white, red, and vermilion. White dogwood blossoms floated like clouds of confectioner's sugar above the azaleas. The scent of honeysuckle

God hath strewed all the way from the gate of hell where thou wast, coming sinner, to the gate of heaven whither thou art going, with flowers out of his own garden. Behold how the promises, invitations, calls, and encouragements, like lilies, lie about thee. Take heed thou dost not tread them under foot.

They had come to praise him. It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life! the doctor said. The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. Oh, we thought, signore, he said, that you were merely a poet.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Like the flowers that spread fragrance, your love brings romance in my ordinary life.

Reaching out and touching hearts is what flowers are all about - a caring, responsive gift with a lasting impact.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.