Flower Quotes and Images: Roses, Wildflowers and Daisies
Flower quotes make us all aware that life’s simple pleasures are the best—nature colors with its collection of roses, daisies, peonies, tulips, daffodils, and more.
While we’re reminded in song and verse “to stop and smell the roses” all too often, many of us don’t find the time. As E.B. White reminds us, “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
Best Quotes About Flowers
I must have flowers, always and always.
Claude Monet
One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Henry David Thoreau
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
Live on coffee and flowers.
Unknown
Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
Shannon Mullen
If friends were flowers, I’d pick you.
Unknown
Every flower must grow through dirt.
Unknown
Inspirational Flower Quotes
A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.
Rumi
To me, flowers are happiness.
Stefano Gabbana
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Short Flower Quotes
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind.
Luther Burbank
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
Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that’s why my heartbeats love them so much.
Unknown
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.
John Lennon
Rose Quotes
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: ‘Aren’t you tired of waiting?’ ‘Yes,’ answers the rose, ‘but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.
Paulo Coelho
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Take time to smell the roses.
Proverb
It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince
Short Rose Quotations
The world is a rose, smell it, and pass it to your friends.
Proverb
Love and a red rose can’t be hidden.
Thomas Holcroft
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Chinese Proverb
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Letitia Baldrige
Wildflower Quotes
Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
Lorde
There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.
Rumi
Love is like wildflowers;
it’s often found in the most unlikely places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
Lady Bird Johnson
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Sheryl Crow
Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.
Melody Lee
Nature’s Pure Beauty
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
William Blake
What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!
Roland R Kemler
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
Lady Bird Johnson
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Therese of Lisieux
Flower Puns
What did the doctor say after she gave her patient a shot? I hope thistle makes you feel better!
If I’ll own a garden, I’ll put our tulips together.
I will love you until the end of thyme.
If you were a flower – you’d be a damnnnndelion.
I love you mum, you’re the best.
We’re mint to be.
What does the letter A have in common with a flower? Both are followed by bees!
My fear of roses is a thorny issue. I’m not sure what it stems from, but it seems likely I’ll be stuck with it.
When kissing flowers, tulips are better than one.
Not a daisy goes by when I don’t think of you.
Not a daisy goes by without me thinking about you.
I hope thistle show you how much I care.
How did the dictator gain control? He rose to power!
Bloom Quotations
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Every flower blooms at its own pace.
Suzy Kassem
The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.
Carole Radziwill
A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.
Bryant McGill
With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.
Ryokan Taigu
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Truth of the Blossom
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
Blossom Sayings
A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In the cherry blossom’s shade, there’s no such thing as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation and the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.
Pablo Neruda
Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares and still stem and blossom into its wildest dreams.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan
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Flower Child Sayings
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Edward Abbey
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
Unknown
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
Go and seek the flower child.
She’s peace and love, but flawed.
Though people spit and put her down,
she learns to love them all.
Unknown
We are all golden sunflowers inside.
Allen Ginsberg
I am a child of the moon being raised by the sun in a world walked by stars and a sky drawn with flowers.
Unknown
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daisy and Daisies Sayings
Don’t you think daisies are the friendliest flower?
Unknown
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.
Therese of Lisieux
Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore
I will go pick daisies and have a happy heart.
Kimber Annie Engstrom
I want daisies in my hair, peace in my soul, and love in my heart.
Unknown
The daisies were a memory prompt willing to remind her of the ugly bygone days of her life with some beautiful memories.
kAkoli
Daisies, simple and sweet. Daisies are the way to win my heart.
Patrick Rothfuss
I keep stars in my pockets wear daisies in my hair but I tuck you tenderly in the folds of my heart and take you everywhere.
Melody Lee
Tulip Quotes
She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.
Joseph Fink
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing?
Mary Astell
Snow is both sides of the same page. It covers the grave and the tulip.
Richard L. Ratliff
These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.
Paulo Coelho, The Spy
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter’s evening. I remember them.
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
For the Love of Tulips
I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth, look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli.
Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me, they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face.
Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth, and Her German Garden
The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices, thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are, after all, empty. When they are old, they turn themselves inside out, explode slowly, the petals thrown like shards.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Orchid Quotes
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
Confucius
Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
Myrtle Reed
She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I’m sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids, or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.
Justina Chen
Flower Quote Meme
Sunflower Quotes
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.
Helen Keller
Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.
J.R. Rim
f roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.
Matshona Dhilwayo
Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
Vera Nazarian
A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.
Corina Abdulahm-Negura
The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.
Martin Firrell
What to Say About Flowers?
Some of our favorite flower quotes:
Flowers may beckon toward us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
Henry Ward Beecher
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
Jim Carrey
A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
Unknown
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
After women, flowers the most divine creations.
Christian Dior
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn
How is Life like a Flower?
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Every flower must grow through dirt.
Laurie Jean Sennott
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Imam Ali
Flowers are like friends; they bring color to the world.
Unknown
Like flowers, we can also choose to bloom.
The Goddess Rebellion
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
John Lennon
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Miranda Kerr
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert
By Mike O’Halloran
O’Halloran, in a past life, used to market flower seeds for NK Lawn & Garden. Currently, he is challenged by keeping his flower beds safe from rabbits and deer.
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