All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there’s no one for you, But here is one.
Jeff Buckley

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Thomas Moore

 I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
Chinese proverb

 

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud

 The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Jean Ingelow

 Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham

 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

 It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
Sonny Rollins

 Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Ethel Waters

 Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Francis Cabot Lowell

 Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

 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 had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it’s not how you start the date, it’s how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don’t finish the date – you know what I mean?
Shaquille O’Neal