| "We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah |
| "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold." »William Wordsworth |
| "A great flame follows a little spark." »Dante Alighieri |
| "I feel again a spark of that ancient flame." »Virgil |
| "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." »Sir Thomas Browne |
| "Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." »Washington Irving |
| "As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)" »La Rochefoucauld |
| "A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart." »Hal Borland |
| "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan |
| "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." »Georgia O'Keeffe |
| "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton |
| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire |
| "Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish." »Homer |
| "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." »Jean Giraudoux |
| "Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it." »Jesse Lair |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames." »Unknown |
| "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." »John Muir |
| "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." »William Wordsworth |
| "The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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