"Earth laughs in flowers." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I had a flower for every time you made me smile and laugh, I'd have a garden to walk in forever." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons." — Khalil Gibran
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires." — Marcelene Cox
"Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure." — White Eagle
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." — Mother Teresa
"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste" — William Shakespeare
"The Amen of nature is always a flower." — Oliver Wendell
"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning." — Lydia Maria Child
"My walls outside must have some flowers, My walls within must have some books; A house that's small; a garden large, And in it leafy nooks." — William Davies