Daffodil Quotes

#1. And the winner of the drawing that night was an eleven-year-old black girl named Dorothy Daffodil-7 Garland.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

Jean Ingelow

#3. The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

Bea Davenport

#4. In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.

George Eliot

#5. Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.

Toni Sorenson

#6. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

T. S. Eliot

#7. FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters.

Jodi Picoult

#8. The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

Marian McPartland

#9. I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!

Freddie Mercury

#10. Rome Archer, if you don't wake up right this second so I can tell you that I love you, I swear I'm going to name this baby something ridiculous like Daffodil or Rover and I'm going to let your brother be in charge of haircuts until he or she is old enough to complain.

Jay Crownover

#11. To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

Leo Buscaglia

#12. Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#13. Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

Elizabeth Wein

#14. It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

Clinton Scollard

#15. It's not that he doesn't appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany.

Terry Pratchett

#16. 'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

David A. Adler

#17. I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Tamora Pierce

#18. They wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a rhyme for daffodil.

Terry Pratchett

#19. You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

Stella Adler

#20. Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

John Keats

#21. I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Celia Thaxter

#22. You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

Lori Borgman

#23. There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

Oscar Wilde

#24. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. And treads on it. Then

Terry Pratchett

#25. Whoever you are. Where ever you are. With whom so ever you are & were. Whatever may be your past. What so ever may be the truth. I will wait for you & I will fade away just like a daffodil when storm comes.

Srinivas Shenoy

#26. Life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

Madeleine L'Engle

#27. If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain

Adam Duritz

#28. Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

Michaela DePrince

#29. Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

#30. Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring

Richard L. Ratliff