Flower Quotes for Spring

Flower quotes can go with any gift or occasion.  In Spring, quotations that feature flowers are perfect complements to just about any type of writing. Gifts and cards are personal expressions that can gain an elegant touch with the addition of flower quotes. A card that goes with a birthday gift, a plant for someone's garden, and end-of-school though for a teacher: all of these can be improved by the inclusion of a special quote about flowers. Sometimes, flower quotes simply add interest to an email or web note.

Use any of these flower quotes during the springtime season. Some of these flower quotes are older and more literary, others are lighthearted and fun. All of these flower quotes offer the opportunity for personal and individual expression.

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.

~Chinese Proverb

Flowers are Love’s truest language.

~Park Benjamin

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

~Maurice Maeterlinck

Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold

~James Russell Lowell      

Earth laughs in flowers.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.

~Maria Konopnicka

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

~Kahlil Gibran

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

~Alice M. Swaim

I want real flowers, perennials which not only grow and change
and die, but also rise again and astonish me. A garden shouldn't
just bloom and look pretty; it should develop like the rest of life.
Otherwise it, and we, live only to be spaded under.

~Emma L. Roth-Schwartz

To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

~William Blake

The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

~ William Cowper

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

~Herbert Rappaport

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

~Kabbalah

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

~Mary Howitt

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

~D. H. Lawrence

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

~Therese of Lisieux

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

~Henry Ward Beecher

The moss-clad violet, fragrant and concealed like hidden charity.

~James Francis Hollings