Quotes About Flowers and Roses

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."
-- J. M. Barrie

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."
-- Edmund Spenser

"The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."
-- Sir Walter Scott

"Earth laughs in flowers.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I owe perhaps becoming a painter to flowers."
-- Claude Monet

"If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one
and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul."
-- The Koran

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
-- Henry Beecher

"Earth laughs in flowers."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
-- Emma Goldman

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must
be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
-- Iris Murdoch

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
-- Walt Whitman