Floral Symbolism Quotes

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

dear kiara, The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose shows love. And the rosery is the only thing i own that i care for, its yours i'm yours C

Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.

Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here.

Violets are God's apology for February.

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.

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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.

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

stay together learn the flowers go light

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!