Floral Arrangements Quotes

Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

I'm a decent man who exports flowers.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.