118 flower quotes for cards, captions, and anyone who loves blooms

The earth laughs in flowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must have flowers, always, and always. — Claude Monet

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. — Gérard de Nerval

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. — Luther Burbank

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. — Hans Christian Andersen

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. — Okakura Kakuzō

A weed is but an unloved flower. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. — Sigmund Freud

The Amen! of Nature is always a flower. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower. — William Blake

Flowers are words which even a babe may understand. — Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Where flowers bloom, so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson

Bloom where you are planted.

A flower is a small, daily miracle.

Fresh flowers, fresh start.

Petals are the earth's handwriting.

Every bouquet is a little bit of sunshine in a vase.

Flowers don't rush, and they still arrive on time.

Keep a flower on the table and a little spring in the house.

Some days just need tulips.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. — Heinrich Heine

A flower blossoms for its own joy. — Oscar Wilde

Life is short. Buy the peonies.

A single stem can change a whole room.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. — Robert Herrick

O my Luve is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June. — Robert Burns

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. — Persian proverb

A rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein

A rose doesn't apologize for its thorns, and it doesn't need to.

The rose teaches the oldest lesson: beauty and difficulty often grow on the same stem.

One red rose says what a thousand words have been trying to.

Roses are patient. They take their time opening, and they are worth the wait.

A rose in winter is a promise that the garden remembers summer.

There is no such thing as too many roses, only vases that are too small.

The rose is proof that something can be soft and strong in the same breath.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet

April showers bring May flowers. — Proverb

Spring is the time of plans and projects. — Leo Tolstoy

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? — Neltje Blanchan

Spring is the earth clearing its throat and then singing in colour.

Nothing is as brave as the first crocus pushing through the last of the snow.

Blooming isn't a performance. It's just what happens when a thing is finally ready.

The garden didn't forget how to flower over winter. It was only waiting.

Spring arrives one bud at a time, and then suddenly all at once.

A tulip doesn't ask if it's too early. It simply opens when the light says so.

Every spring the world proves that endings were only pauses after all.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness. — Gertrude Jekyll

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. — Indian proverb

Flowers grow in the dark long before anyone sees them bloom. So do people.

Roots first, then flowers. Growth has always worked in that order.

You cannot pull a flower open faster. You can only water it and wait.

Every bloom you admire spent months as something nobody noticed.

The seed doesn't worry about being a seed. It just keeps doing the next small thing.

Patience is the gardener's only real tool; everything else is just a trowel.

Even the most stubborn bud opens eventually. Give yourself the same grace.

A few flowers to say what I keep meaning to say: you matter to me.

These blooms were picked with you in mind. Let them brighten your week the way you brighten mine.

Flowers fade, but the thought behind them stays fresh. Thinking of you.

I couldn't send sunshine, so I sent the next best thing.

Every petal here is a small thank-you. There weren't enough petals.

Put these somewhere you'll see them often, and remember you're loved just as often.

A bouquet is a hug that fits in a vase. Consider yourself hugged.

I saw these and thought of you, which is honestly how most of my days go.

Fresh flowers for a wonderful person. The flowers are the smaller of the two.

May these blooms remind you that beautiful things are still growing, even now.

No reason, no occasion, just flowers and the fact that I adore you.

Here's a little bit of garden for your table and a little bit of my heart with it.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. — Theodore Roethke

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

To create a little flower is the labour of ages. — William Blake

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be like the wildflower: unplanned, unbothered, and blooming anyway.

A flower never compares its colour to the one beside it. It just opens.

Storms bend flowers; they rarely break the ones with deep roots.

The sun doesn't ask the flower to be perfect before it shines on it.

Turn toward the light. The flowers figured that out long before we did.

A field of flowers is just thousands of small decisions to grow.

Even after the hardest winter, the first blossom still shows up on time.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin

I talk to my plants. Mostly apologies.

A gardener's definition of a weed: any plant growing where I didn't put it.

My love language is bringing home flowers I definitely didn't need.

Gardening: the only hobby where you can kill something and simply call it 'a learning season'.

I don't have a plant problem. I have a plant collection and a space problem.

Buying flowers for myself is called self-care. Buying a fourth bunch is called a habit.

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow, but mine seems to prefer the gardener's credit card.

Every gardener has three gardens: the one in the catalogue, the one in their head, and the one with the slugs.

Flowers are cheaper than therapy and they come in more colours.

Step one: buy the plant. Step two: find out it wanted a completely different window.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. — Max Müller

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law. — D.H. Lawrence

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde

Love and a red rose can't be hid. — Thomas Holcroft

Love is a garden: it needs tending, it has seasons, and it is always worth the dirt under your nails.

I'd give you every flower in the shop, but they'd only be trying to look like you.

The right person is like the right flower: you don't know why it stops you, only that it does.

Love doesn't need a dozen roses. One, handed over with a shaky smile, will do.

You are the garden I keep coming home to.

Some love is a bouquet, bright and gone in a week. Ours is the kind that grows roots.

Flowers were my first way of saying 'I love you'. They still work.

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. — Chinese proverb

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

Give flowers to the living. They can smell them.

Flowers are the one gift that says 'I thought of you' before the card is even opened.

Nobody has ever regretted bringing flowers.

A bouquet given for no reason is the best reason of all.

Send the flowers today. The right moment is almost always now.

The giver of flowers always gets a little of the bloom back.

You don't need an occasion to give flowers. You need a person you're glad exists.

Flowers are how we say 'I see you' to someone who thinks nobody does.

Hand someone a bunch of flowers and watch an ordinary Tuesday turn into a good one.

A gift of flowers is a gift of attention, and attention is the rarest thing we have.