You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.