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Quotes about flowers and blooming where you are planted. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest flowers quotes ever written — from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Leo Buscaglia and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

The earth laughs in flowers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder — the oldest lesson of words.

The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

— Leo Buscaglia

Give thanks for the rain in your life which waters the flowers of your soul.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

What if you slept and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A grandmother's garden is a place where love blooms in every row.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

— Buddha

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

— Albert Camus

April showers bring May flowers.

In April's gentle weather, a thousand flowers bloom together.

— William Wordsworth

Every leaf is a flower in autumn.

Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.

— William Wordsworth

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

— Oscar Wilde

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

— William Wordsworth

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

— Anne Frank

The colour of springtime is in the flowers; the colour of winter is in the imagination.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

— John Lennon

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root.

— William Wordsworth

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

— Mark Twain

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

— Victor Hugo

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.

— William Wordsworth

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears.

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.

Love is flower like; friendship is like a sheltering tree.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty — and sometimes attract a few pests.

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