Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
—Lewis Mumford
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
—Andy Rooney
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
—Loren Eiseley
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
—Albert Camus
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
—H. L. Mencken
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
—Paul Dirac
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
—Saadi
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
—Lincoln Steffens
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
—Herbert Rappaport
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
—Robert Fortune
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
—Pablo Neruda
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
—Robert Green Ingersoll
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
—A. A. Milne
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
—Gertrude Stein