Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya”"

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Beecher, LifeThoughts, 1858

I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill”

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. Heinrich Heine The Hartz Journey

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. - Helen Keller

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran

"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.” Jean Paul Richter (German Novelist and humorist, )

What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle--oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! - Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident;

others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. - Archbishop Robert Leighton

These stars of earth, these golden flowers. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow