And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns. – Thomas Moore
My last book, ‘The Language of Flowers,’ I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I feel like if I’m sick, I need flowers. I’m very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands. – Samaire Armstrong
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. – Samuel Rutherford
A dear friend of mine always brings a pineapple instead of flowers when he comes to a show. I love it. – Seth Numrich
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
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words – without locks, open on my shelves. – Terry Tempest Williams
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green – and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme. – Tove Lo
I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don’t know… one of my favorite movies is ‘The Notebook’ so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It’s about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her. – Taylor Lautner
I once took the key off my girlfriend’s key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised. – Trey Songz
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be. – Sappho
It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. – Sonny Rollins
When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine’s Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath. – Tom Cullen
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. – Sylvia Plath
‘In the Cut’ was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women’s writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children. – Susanna Moore
The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of ‘Le Language des Fleurs,’ written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book – which was a list of flowers and their meanings – de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it’s actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish. – Sam Kean
Writing has always been an interest of mine, and ‘The Language of Flowers’ combined my experience with foster care with something I’ve always wanted to do. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love. – Thérèse of Lisieux
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower. – Tom Hodgkinson
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we’ve never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions. – Vic Morrow
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade. – Thiruvalluvar
That’s the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame. – Wangari Maathai
I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg once and couldn’t really move around, I started playing around with it… putting the scent inside and dried flowers, and that’s it. – Twinkle Khanna
