If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.
DesireAlfred TennysonLove thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonMy favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
Kate MossI'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma GoldmanThe sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
OvidSome people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
GratitudeAlphonse KarrLove is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Love, GardenHelen KellerI paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida KahloFlowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund FreudLove is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
LoveD. H. LawrenceBy plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Beauty, CreationRabindranath TagoreFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward BeecherA red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under SocialismEarth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
Mulan, by Emperor of ChinaFor women are as Roses, whose fairr flowre,
Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
Amy Winehouse"Just living is not enough", said the butterfly.
"One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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? And what if when you awoke you had that flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Dreaming, SkySamuel Taylor Coleridge