(491 quotes found)
“Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”
Wilfred Peterson
“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
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.”
Shigenori Kameoka
“Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ...”
Robert Frost
“If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.”
Joyce Grenfell
“Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.”
Charles M. Schwab
“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
William Shakespeare
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
“As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.”
James Allen
