Grow Flowers Quotes

#1. If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Magdi Yacoub

#2. Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

Stuart Adamson

#3. Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

Steven L. Layne

#4. How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Rumi

#5. There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over the body to conceal it

Slavoj Zizek

#6. Money Chiefs, loud and long notes are not songs. Silent snow wets Earth, seeds grow, flowers' honey purses seek neither wealth nor power, and the forest's quiet wisdom needs no wind to blow.

Frederic M. Perrin

#7. If life wanted to hand me lemons
I was not only going to make lemonade,
but I'd use the zest for cookies,
plant seeds for future fruit and turn the rind into compost to grow flowers, all the while giving thanks for lemons.

Bridgette Mongeon

#8. I won't regret, because you can grow flowers where dirt used to be.

Kate Nash

#9. Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

Rahman Baba

#10. There are those who say that in their heaven there is no suffering. But if there is no suffering, how can there be happiness? We need compost to grow flowers, and mud to grow lotuses.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.

Debasish Mridha

#12. It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

Robert Harris

#13. When life gives you dirt, grow flowers.

Unknown

#14. Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.

Becky Allen

#15. Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#16. You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

Kate Nash

#17. Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Herbert Simon

#18. The physical world - the world of stone and brick - is indifferent to our suffering, to our dramas, she thought. Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Dalai Lama

#20. As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

Anthony De Mello

#21. This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Margaret Lindsay

#22. Tears are every heartfelt feeling,every reminiscence,and every prayer falling down from the walls of heaven raining down upon us all.The tears that are saddened make the rivers rage and joyful tears make the flowers grow.The rain though never stops flowing.

Grace Lawson

#23. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

#24. Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow.

Ramon Gomez De La Serna

#25. Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

Cynthia Lewis

#26. You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Oscar De La Renta

#27. There is a wonderful place
where flowers grow in colors
beyond the words of poets ...
trees sing with the
songs of butterflies.
And mythical tigresses look
at you with fiery golden eyes ...
open your heart
and feel the colors of magic
blooming inside you.

Laurel Burch

#28. A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

Jaggi Vasudev

#29. From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

#30. Raindrops fall from clouds of gray.
The fragile flowers grow.
Teardrops seem all I can say.
They speak of endless woe.
Your fingers wipe my grief away.
A seed of love you sow.
A hardened heart reverts to clay.
You mold my love just so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. It is not the thunder that makes the flowers grow ...

Jury Nel

#32. Rhythms appear in the ways flowers grow, water flows, the earth moves around the sun, the moon moves through their dreams, and thoughts travel within their minds.

Blue Balliett

#33. Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Hermann Hesse

#34. HOUSE

Grow high. The devil can't find you.
Grow deep. Buddha can't find you.
Build a house and live there.
Gourd creepers will climb over it,
their flowers dazzling at midnight.

Ko Un

#35. On which side of the road do the flowers grow? Not on the side of the perfect jar, but on the side of the one you would have me throw away - the one with all the imperfections.

Wendell E. Mettey

#36. Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn't smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don't have mud, the lotus won't manifest. You can't grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#37. He was a very good gardener, understood flowers, and knew how to make things grow. What is more, he liked this kind of work almost as much as painting.

Thomas Merton

#38. Yes, storms are damaging, but we need them because they clear away the bracken that prevents new flowers from having a chance to grow. And of course we need the sun to shine on those new flowers that without the storm might never have had a chance to bloom.

Meg Cabot

#39. Us people are much like flowers, We grow, die, wilt, and are unique in our own way.

Me

#40. How glad I am that spring has come, and how it calms my mind when wearied with study to walk out in the green fields and beside the pleasant streams in which South Hadley is rich! ... The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it not so with you? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root)

Emily Dickinson

#41. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single.

Daniel Handler

#42. From little seeds great flowers grow.

Jessie Burton

#43. Be not in despair; let those tears of sadness grow into flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#44. A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

Lydia M. Child

#45. I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

Anne Reeve Aldrich

#46. Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Arthur Golden

#47. Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

Hannah Whitall Smith

#48. Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair ... !'
'And in my heart?'
'In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!

J.G. Ballard

#49. Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

Elizabeth Kata

#50. As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

Dante Alighieri

#51. The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.

Emily Dickinson

#52. Like flowers blooming through cement,
we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

Gina Greenlee

#53. The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#54. Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.

Georg Feuerstein

#55. This worked pretty well; the nests in gardens tended to grow much more quickly and become heavier than those on farms, presumably because they have more flowers.

Dave Goulson

#56. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Samuel Johnson

#57. And these flowers grow, and one day they die, but they'll grow again. These flowers are perennial. Their seed is eternal. Flower begets flower and on we must go - from now until the end of time. Always it were thus, like a line of human bellybuttons stretching back to Adam and Eve.

Anonymous

#58. The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Mother Teresa

#59. On rich soils only abundant harvests of produce for ordinary consumption grow.
On poor soils the most misshapen trees, and flowers of the rarest, the subtlest colours and scents are to be found.

Roger Giroux

#60. If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#61. The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Bruce Lee

#62. Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self.

Sonia Choquette

#63. Hope is a garden where dreams grow like flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#64. No, dearie. I don't need any seeds. And besides, I'm growing moor flowers. Wildflowers." "I didn't know you could, in this soil." "You can't, of course. That's the point. Flowers are freethinking things. They grow where they please. I'd like to see you try and tell a moor flower where to grow.

Victoria Schwab

#65. The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

Jack Kerouac

#66. Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

Henry David Thoreau

#67. He wanted to dig a hole and put the past inside it and cover it back up again. He didn't know if flowers would grow there or not. He hoped they would.

Elizabeth Brundage

#68. It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.

Linda Howard

#69. We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

Gerhard E Frost

#70. When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with encroachers. The most redolent flowers grow over graves.

Bauvard

#71. I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Jane Austen

#72. You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Robert Jordan

#73. What had Miss Finch said, all those years ago? That there were no do-overs, no comebacks? That once someone was gone, they were gone forever. Dead flowers didn't bloom, and they didn't grow.

Alexandra Bracken

#74. True chaos comes from the garden of your soul;
where the wild flowers grow

Matt Baker

#75. Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#76. We plant, we nurture, we grow and we give, different flowers for different moments in time, but all for the same purpose: to say that which cannot be said, and to say it with beauty and with grace.

Mandy Kirkby

#77. He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

William Shakespeare

#78. Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

Hakuun Yasutani

#79. A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion)
Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger)
And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#80. Since the grasses are being parasitised, they grow less, leaving more room for other flowering plants. Pywell demonstrated that sowing rattle seed into an English meadow significantly boosted the diversity of flowers present by suppressing growth of grasses.

Dave Goulson

#81. The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

Emily Dickinson

#82. Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

Charles Spurgeon

#83. We are fundamentally connected. We met when we were broken seeds, when we were still being formed into something. We had to grow together to survive. Some part of us will always be like that, connected, growing together. We're different flowers, but we were nurtured from the same damaged root.

R.K. Lilley

#84. All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Bob Dylan

#85. Tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they're cut.

Sarah Jio

#86. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Shel Silverstein

#87. I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.

George Harrison

#88. You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Cyndi Lauper

#89. Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

Daniel D. Palmer

#90. Flowers grow best on dungheaps, as Shakespeare never tires of saying.

J.M. Coetzee

#91. Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.

David Macbeth Moir

#92. If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.

David Ignatow

#93. I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot;
There flowers or weeds at will may
grow, So I behold them not

George Gordon Byron

#94. Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.

Rajneesh

#95. Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.

James Van Praagh

#96. Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.

Debasish Mridha

#97. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Stephen R. Covey

#98. If you ask, flowers and plants will tell you many stories. God can talk through them, and if you ask them, they will raise their hands if they know they can help you with an illness.

Mabel Katz

#99. Be a gardener to grow trees of trust and flowers of love.

Debasish Mridha

#100. Look at the trees. They let go of their flowers and leaves to grow and gain back new leaves, flowers, and fruits to beautify us and the nature.

Debasish Mridha