Flower Quotes

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
- John Muir

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
- George Bernard Shaw

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
- Buddha

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

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
- Thomas Tusser

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun

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

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

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

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