Flower Quotes
Flower quotes remind us that life’s simple pleasures are the best—nature’s 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
1.) I must have flowers, always and always.
Claude Monet
2.) One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Henry David Thoreau
3.) Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
4.) Live on coffee and flowers.
Unknown
5.) Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
Shannon Mullen
6.) If friends were flowers, I’d pick you.
Unknown
7.) Every flower must grow through dirt.
Unknown
Short Flower Quotes
8.) To me, flowers are happiness.
Stefano Gabbana
9.) Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
10.) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
11.) Every flower blooms in its own time.
Ken Petti
12.) Love is flower-like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
13.) Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine
14.) A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Inspirational Flower Quotes
15.) 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
16.) Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
17.) Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind.
Luther Burbank
18.) Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
19.) Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that’s why my heartbeats love them so much.
Unknown
20.) Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
John Lennon
Rose Quotes
21.) We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
22.) 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
23.) Roses do not bloom hurriedly, for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
24.) 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
25.) The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
Dorothea Dix
26.) The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
Short Rose Quotations
27.) The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
Proverb
28.) Take time to smell the roses.
Proverb
29.) Love and a red rose can’t be hidden.
Thomas Holcroft
30.) Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau
31.) A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Chinese Proverb
32.) The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
33.) I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Letitia Baldrige
34.) A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.
Rumi
Wildflower Quotes
35.) Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
Lorde
36.) 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
37.) Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38.) Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
Lady Bird Johnson
39.) No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Sheryl Crow
40.) 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
41.) To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
William Blake
42.) What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!
Roland R Kemler
43.) Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
Lady Bird Johnson
44.) I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
45.) A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
46.) If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Therese of Lisieux
Flower Puns
47.) What did the doctor say after she gave her patient a shot? I hope thistle makes you feel better!
48.) If I’ll own a garden, I’ll put our tulips together.
49.) I will love you until the end of thyme.
50.) If you were a flower – you’d be a damndelion.
51.) I love you, mum, you’re the best.
52.) We’re mint to be.
53.) What does the letter A have in common with a flower? Both are followed by bees!
54.) My fear of roses is a thorny issue. I’m not sure what it stems from, but I’ll likely be stuck with it.
55.) When kissing flowers, tulips are better than one.
56.) Not a daisy goes by when I don’t think of you.
57.) I hope thistle show you how much I care.
58.) How did the dictator gain control? He rose to power!
Bloom Quotations
59.) Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
60.) Every flower blooms at its own pace.
Suzy Kassem
61.) The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures, and the flower blooms.
Carole Radziwill
62.) A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.
Matshona Dhliwayo
63.) Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.
Bryant McGill
64.) 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
65.) After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior
66.) Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
67.) Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Truth of the Blossom
68.) 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
69.) A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
70.) In the cherry blossom’s shade, there’s no such thing as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
71.) 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
72.) Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares and still stem and blossom into its wildest dreams.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
73.) Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
74.) If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
75.) She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile, the sun still shined.
Erin Hanson
76.) Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan
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Flower Child Sayings
77.) I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Edward Abbey
78.) You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
Unknown
79.) With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
80.) 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
81.) We are all golden sunflowers inside.
Allen Ginsberg
82.) 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
83.) Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daisy and Daisies Sayings
84.) Don’t you think daisies are the friendliest flower?
Unknown
85.) 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
86.) Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore
87.) I will go pick daisies and have a happy heart.
Kimber Annie Engstrom
88.) I want daisies in my hair, peace in my soul, and love in my heart.
Unknown
89.) The daisies were a memory prompt willing to remind her of the ugly bygone days of her life with some beautiful memories.
Akola
90.) Daisies, simple and sweet. Daisies are the way to win my heart.
Patrick Rothfuss
91.) I keep stars in my pockets and wear daisies in my hair, but I tuck you tenderly in the folds of my heart and take you everywhere.
Melody Lee
Tulip Quotes
92.) She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.
Joseph Fink
93.) 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
94.) Snow is both sides of the same page. It covers the grave and the tulip.
Richard L. Ratliff
95.) 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
96.) 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
97.) 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
98.) 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
99.) An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
Confucius
100.) Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.
Myrtle Reed
101.) 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
102.) Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
103.) When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
104.) 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
Sunflower Quotes
105.) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.
Helen Keller
106.) Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.
J.R. Rim
107.) If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty, and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.
Matshona Dhilwayo
108.) Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
Vera Nazarian
109.) A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.
Corina Abdulahm-Negura
110.) The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.
Martin Firrell
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What to Say About Flowers?
Some of our favorite flower quotes:
111.) Flowers may beckon toward us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
Henry Ward Beecher
112.) The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
113.) 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
114.) 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
115.) Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
116.) After women, flowers the most divine creations.
Christian Dior
117.) 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
118.) To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn
How is Life like a Flower?
119.) Every flower must grow through dirt.
Laurie Jean Sennott
120.) Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Imam Ali
121.) Flowers are like friends; they bring color to the world.
Unknown
122.) Like flowers, we can also choose to bloom.
The Goddess Rebellion
123.) Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
124.) Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
John Lennon
125.) 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
126.) Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert
Beautiful Flower Quotes
127.) In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Okakura Kakuz
128.) If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
129.) By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
130.) You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
131.) If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson
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132.) A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
133.) Flowers whisper “beauty” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.
Dr. Sunwolf
134.) The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
134.) If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha
135.) Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
Japanese Proverb
136.) All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb
137.) Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.
Edwin Curran
138.) Flowers are love’s truest language.
Park Benjamin
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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