Flower Gift Quotes

Flowers can put a smile on our face, remind us of the beauty of nature, and fill us with delight. Similarly, quotes can make us laugh, cause us to think, and inspire and motivate us. Combining these two elements together are the below quotes about flowers compiled from Brainy Quote, and Good Reads by various artists, writers, and other historical figures.

Quotes about Flowers

• "A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits." -Andrew Weil
• "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." -Claude Monet
• "You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway." -Cyndi Lauper
• "Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds." -Daniel D. Palmer
• "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." -Henri Matisse
• "The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." -Henry Ward Beecher
• "Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet." -Jeremy Bentham
• "In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life." -Jonas Mekas
• "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul." -Luther Burbank
• "Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers." -May Sarton
• "I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too." -Miranda Kerr
• "A flower blossoms for its own joy." -Oscar Wilde
• "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." -Oscar Wilde
• "Wild flowers grow where they will." -Rachel Lambert Mellon
• "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers." -Robert Fortune
• "By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity." -Robert A. Heinlein
• "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts." -Sigmund Freud
• "And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." -Thomas Moore
• "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
• "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment." -Georgia O'Keeffe
• "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." -Gérard de Nerval
• "Love is a peaceful feeling, like a flower hugging a butterfly." -Jarod Kintz
• "Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart." -Veera Venkata Vinayak

Sources
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/flowers.html?vm=l
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/flower