Jonno White
Dec 8, 202215 min
1. “A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows.” – Rob Cella
2. “Truths and roses have thorns about them.” – Henry David Thoreau
3. “The flower that fades is not looked upon.” — Edward Counsel, Maxims
4. “After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.” — Christian Dior
5. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” — Theodore Roethke
6. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” -Max Muller
7. “I must have flowers, always and always.” — Claude Monet
8. “Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” –Walter Hagen
9. “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
10. “A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.” – Rumi
11. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” –William Shakespeare
12. “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.” — Unknown
13. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” –Laurie Jean Sennott
14. Girls just want to have sunflowers.
15. “True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” — Ana Claudia Antunes
16. “She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.” — Unknown
17. “Every flower blooms in its own time.” ― Ken Petti
18. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen
19. “Loveliest of trees the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough” – A.E. Housman
20. “I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.” – James Patterson
21. “Between our two lives, there is also the life of the cherry blossom” – Matsuo Basho
22. “Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.”
23. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” — Buddha
24. “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
25. “No rose without a thorn.” – French Proverb
26. “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” –Dr. SunWolf
27. “And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze, and so the blossoms fall, and so my days.” – Onitsura
28. “Every flower blooms in its own time.” — Ken Petti
29. “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” –Robert Leighton
30. “My love for you blossoms every day.” — Unknown
31. “The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.” -Plutarch
32. “Flowers are the remnants of paradise on earth.” — John of Kronstadt
33. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” –Gerard De Nerval
34. “We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.” — Gwendolyn Brooks
35. “She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.”
36. “From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall” – Matsuo Basho
37. “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
38. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” ― Therese of Lisieux
39. “Restless sunflower; cease to move.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
40. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom.” –Jim Carrey
41. “The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” — Dorothea Dix
42. “I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.” – Christine and the Queens
43. “Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.” — Unknown
44. “It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
45. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
46. “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ― Alexander Den Heijer
47. “A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” – Corina Abdulahm-Negura
48. “You can’t choose to adore the flower and ignore the thorns. Love means loving every part of them, especially the unlovable parts.” ― Sarvesh Jain
49. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi
50. “Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul." — Luther Burbank
52. “May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.” -Nhat Hanh
53. “The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.” –Lester Cole
54. “Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
55. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms” – Kobayashi Issa
56. “When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― Sanober Khan
57. “A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
58. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey
59. “Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!” -Lady Bird Johnson
60. “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” ― Herbert Rappaport
61. “Tiger lilies never change their stripes.” – Darren Tisdale
62. “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” — Hans Christian Andersen
63. “If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” – Audra Foveo
64. “A weed is but an unloved flower.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
65. I think you’re dandy, and I’m not lion!
66. “Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” — Steve Maraboli
67. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
68. “In the garden of love, flowers don’t die.” — Nitya Prakash
69. “Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.” -Melody Lee
70. “If friends were flowers, I’d pick you.”
71. “Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” — Unknown
72. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” ―E.V
73. “Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them.” ― Munia Khan
74. “Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.” — Chinese Proverb
75. “If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” – Georgia O’Keefe.
76. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon
77. You made my daisy.
78. “A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.” – Chinese Proverb
79. “You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted.” – Cory Booker
80. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” — Edwin Curran
81. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.” — Buddha
82. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
83. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” — Luther Burbank
84. “Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” –Bryant McGill
85. “I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.” ― Antoinette Foy
86. “If the rose is beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself.” – Charles De Leusse
87. “Be like a flower. Survive the rain but use it to grow.” — Unknown
88. “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” –Steve Maraboli
89. “One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.” -Henry David Thoreau
90. “A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
91. “I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate.” – Halle Berry
92. “One by one she slew her fears and then planted a flower garden over their graves.” ― John Mark Green
93. “Learn to spread joy and happiness like Spring Blossoms.” ― Purvi Raniga
94. “Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” — Bryant McGill
95. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
96. “Soldiers falling fast, Battle of white and scarlet, Blossoms on the ground” – David Kudler
97. “Every flower blooms in its own time.” –Ken Petti
98. You grow girl.
99. “Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.” — Heinrich Heine
100. “Every flower withers. What matters is how proudly it stood before the sun.” ― Marty Rubin
101. “The flower fades that is not looked upon.” – Edward Counsel
102. “The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.” – Ovid
103. “Let your joy burst forth like flowers in the spring.” — Unknown
104. “We’re all golden sunflowers inside.” – Allen Ginsberg
105. “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” — Steve Maraboli
106. “Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.” — Aaron Neville
107. “To me, flowers are happiness.” — Stefano Gabbana
108. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” — Shannon Mullen
109. “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.” –Miranda Kerr
110. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
111. “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower.” –Carole Radziwill
112. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” –Corita Kent
113. “Always rooting for you.” — Unknown
114. “I plant sunflowers and get back daily joy.” – Nadine Locke
115. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” — Okakura Kakuzo
116. “Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.” ― Michele Farabee
117. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” — Ralph Waldo Emmerson
118. “Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.” – Alice Oswald
119. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”– Henri Matisse
120. “Sad bright eyes Are cherry blossoms Your true love Will never wake up” – Communique
121. I love you bunches.
122. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” –Audrey Hepburn
123. “Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.” — Mark Twain
124. “Earth laughs in flowers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
125. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” –Ralph Waldo Emmerson
126. “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” — Dr. SunWolf
127. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” –Lady Bird Johnson
128. “Flowers too wither and fall, but they inspire one and all.” — Avijeet Das
129. “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” –Stephanie Skeem
130. “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.” — Erin Hanson
131. “If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” — Isaac Hayes
132. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” –Thomas Tusser
133. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” — Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns
134. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Reginald Heber
135. I think of you everydaisy.
136. “It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.” – Lou Rawls
137. “All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.” — Indian Proverb
138. “True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” – Ana Claudia Antunes
139. “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” –Roland R. Kemler
140. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde
141. “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Anderse
142. “Life is better with flowers and coffee.” — Unknown
143. “All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” –Indian Proverb
144. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” — Gerard De Nerval
145. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
146. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” –Frances Hodgson Burnett
147. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” –Clare Ansberry
148. “Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” –Carl Friedrich Gauss
149. What in carnation?
150. “We are all golden sunflowers inside.” — Allen Ginsberg
151. “You’re my best bud.” — Unknown
152. “Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.” -Maria Konopnicka
153. “One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.” — Henry David Thoreau
154. Daisy me rollin’.
155. “Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.”
156. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett
157. “Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.” — Robert A. Heinlein
158. “Good friends are like beautiful flowers in the garden of life.” -Katrina Mayer
159. “Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower.” — Debasish Mridha
160. “Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” – John Ruskin
161. “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” -Sheryl Crow
162. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller
163. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea
164. “She may lose a few petals but it doesn’t make her any less a flower.” — Alicia Green
165. “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” — Honore de Balzac
166. “I spent a lifetime in a garden one afternoon.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough
167. “Autumn had arrived, the last blossom whispered, let me stay awhile.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
168. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” — Corita Kent
169. Everything is A-bouquet.
170. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” — Freidrich Max Muller
171. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” –E.V.
172. Always rooting for you.
173. “Every flower blooms at its own pace.” — Suzy Kassem
174. Plant one on me!
175. “Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.” – Kahlil Gibran
176. “I love to see people blossom.” – Roger Rees
177. Let your dreams blossom.
178. “The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.” — Persian Proverb
179. Blossom buddies
180. “Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun.”– Remez Sasson
181. “Live Life in Full Bloom.” — Unknown
182. “A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
183. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
184. I be-leaf in you.
185. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
186. “Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
187. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” –Zen Shin
188. “Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.” — Unknown
189. “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” — Stephanie Skeem
190. “Happiness blooms from within.”
191. “But he that dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.” – Anne Bronte
192. “I must have flowers, always and always.” –Claude Monet
193. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser
194. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne
195. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” — Clare Ansberry
196. “Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” — Stephen Richards
197. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
198. “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” – Emma Goldman
199. “The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated”. — Lester Cole
200. “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” — Carole Radziwill
201. “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” — Roland R. Kemler
202. Mums the word.
203. “May your days be bright and beautiful like the flower buds of May.”
204. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
205. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful.” –Luther Burbank
206. “If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” –Stevie Wonder
207. “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” — D. H. Lawrence
208. “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind.” –Erin Hanson
209. “All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” — Indian Proverb
210. “Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.” — Ellen Everett
211. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood
212. “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” – E. Y. Harburg
213. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair.” – Susan Polis Schutz
214. “Learn from flowers – always angle towards the sun” ― Maureen Joyce Connolly
215. “A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions—so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” — Terri Guillemets
216. “The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.” – Martin Firrell
217. “Live on coffee and flowers.”
218. “Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.” — Japanese Proverb
219. What’s up buttercup?
220. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” — Rabindranath Tagore
221. You rose to the occasion.
222. A peony saved is a peony earned.
223. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” — Therese of Lisieux
224. “Live simply bloom wildly.” — Unknown
225. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” –Buddha
226. “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” — Robert Leighton
227. “May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.” -Shantideva
228. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” –Therese of Lisieux
229. “The sunflower is mine, in a way.” – Vincent Van Gogh
230. You’re simply Iris-istible.
231. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
232. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” — Laurie Jean Sennott
233. “A sunflower teaches us so much about love.” – Samrah Ahmad
234. “A flower is a smile from heaven.” — Unknown
235. “Let a hundred flowers bloom.” – Mao Zedong
236. “Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.” — Paul A.M. Dirac
237. “If you really screw up, send roses.” – Letitia Baldrige
238. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” –John Harrigan
239. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — Zen Shin
240. Rose over bros.
241. “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
242. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” –Henri Matisse
243. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” ―Gérard de Nerval
244. Once and flor-al!
245. “You look beautiful as a sunflower and charming as a rose.” – Avijeet Das
246. “The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” – Thomas Malory
247. Gardens of the Galaxy.
248. “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” — Miranda Kerr
249. “Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.” — Michele Farabee
250. You’re my best bud.
251. “the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be” – Dennis Potter
252. “Take time to smell the roses.” — Old Proverb
253. “Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower.” – Vera Nazarian
254. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan
255. “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” -A.A. Milne
256. “I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees” – Pablo Neruda
257. “The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.” – Thomas Bulfinch
258. “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.”
259. “We are all golden sunflowers inside.” –Allen Ginsberg
260. “Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
261. “My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.” – Bret Michaels
262. “A flower can be defined by its unique beauty and an incredible allure.” — Happiness Shuma
263. Don’t get so pansy with me.
264. “Sunflowers are like people to me.” – Joan Mitchell
265. “Do something today that will encourage you to blossom.”
266. “I must have flowers, always, and always.” — Claude Monet
267. “Take time to smell the roses.” –Proverb
268. “Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love.” — Anthony T. Hincks
269. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
270. “Lilies bloom when we laugh together.” — Suyasha Subedi
271. “Bloom wherever you are planted.” — Unknown
272. “May the petals teach me the art of letting go.” — Xan Oku
273. “Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities in the world.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
274. “Pink petals will always caress the blossom of my heart.” — Anthony T. Hincks
275. “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” – Gertrude S. Wister
276. “He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower, and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” — Gemma Malley, The Declaration
277. Oopsie daisy!
278. “In joy and in sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
279. “Tomorrow it may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” – The Beatles
280. “Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April.” – Monty Don
281. “One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.” ― Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries
282. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” –Edwin Curran
283. Let’s put our tulips together.
284. “What a lovely thing a rose is!” – Arthur Conan Doyle
285. “Flowers are like friends; they bring colour to your world.” — Unknown
286. “My love for you blossoms every day.”
287. “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” — Henry Ward Beecher
288. “Every flower blooms at its own pace.” –Suzy Kassem
289. “Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
290. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” — Susan Polis Schutz
291. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” -Shannon Mullen
292. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
293. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
294. “When you bloom like a blossom, you must help other flower buds to bloom too.” ― Munia Khan
295. “There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.” -Rumi
296. “A rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein
297. “A flower is a smile from heaven.”
298. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
299. “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” — Sheryl Crow
300. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller