| "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 |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan |
| "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton |
| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford |
| "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." »Georgia O'Keeffe |
| "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it." »Jesse Lair |
| "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." »Jean Giraudoux |
| "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." »William Wordsworth |
| "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." »John Muir |
| "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." »William Shakespeare |
| "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 |
| "The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." »T. Starr King |
| "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." »George MacDonald |
| "Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "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 |
| "Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk" »Alice Walker |
| "Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated." »Alexander Osborn |
| "The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower." »Edith Hamilton |
| "From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)" »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us." »Thomas Nash |
| "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying." »Robert Herrick |
| "Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven." »Russell M. Nelson |
| "Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
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