2. “How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing?” – Mary Astell
3. “A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than . It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.” – Marianne Williamson
4. “Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy.” – Rebecca Wells
5. “Tulips were a tray of jewels.” – E.M. Forster
6. “Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss, and poses, the satin of their darks.” – Margaret Atwood
7. “I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun.” – Elizabeth von Arnim
8. “Snow is on both sides of the same page. It covers the grave and the tulip.” – Richard L. Ratliff
9. “Never blur or erase love for those who once brought greenery and blossomed tulips during the dry and thorny phase.” – Spirha Kant
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10. “Daffodils blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials—they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection to charm.” – Monty Don
11. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi
12. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
13. “I must have flowers, always and always.” – Claude Monet
14. “Sweet scents, red tulips. Red tulips bring such happiness. Our hearts are full of pleasure.” – Natasa Tocuc
15. “Mama was my greatest teacher—a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder
16. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
17. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud
18. “Here, tulips bloom as they are told; unkempt about those hedges blows an english unofficial rose.” – Rupert Brooke
19. “An exquisite invention, worthy of love’s most honeyed kiss. This art of writing billet-doux, in buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all, one feels and thinks in and pinks; in puns of tulips; and in phrases, charming for their truth, of daisies.” – Leigh Hunt
20. “I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself—only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking at the sun or anything else above them in the face.” – Elizabeth von Arnim
21. “Like tulip-beds of different shapes and dyes, bending beneath the invisible west-wind’s sighs.” – Thomas Moore
22. “All my tulips are white. She liked them red. I stained them with my blood and she came running for a hug. Every tulip that blossomed since became hungry for my red. One day, I ran out of my blood and the next one that came flowered in white. That’s the end of us.” – Kalyan Reddy
23. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
24. “The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton
25. “Always, it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” – E.E. Cummings
26. “Guarded within the old red wall’s embrace, marshalled like soldiers in gay company, the tulips stand arrayed. Here, infantry wheels out into the sunlight.” – Amy Lowell
27. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval
28. “Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” –
29. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Reothke
30. “It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want to—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” – Mark Twain
31. “We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.” – Gwendolyn Brooks
32. “A little flower that blooms in May, a lovely sunset at the end of a day, someone helping a stranger along the way. That’s heaven to me.” – Sam Cooke
33. “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “And tulips, children love to stretch their fingers down—to feel in each Its beauty’s secret nearer.” – Elizabeth Browning
35. “If a purple tulip could talk she would say something calm, cool and wise, without the flash of a soothing balm.” – Amelia Brown
36. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
37. “Contempt for flowers is an offense against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offense in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip, offends God immeasurably.” – Alexandre Dumas
38. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.” – Buddha
39. “Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” – E.V.
40. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Veronica A. Shoffstall
41. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” –
42. “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” – Steve Maraboli
43. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
44. “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Joseph Addison
45. “Your soul is attracted to people the same way flowers are attracted to the sun, surround yourself only with those who want to see you grow.” – Pavana
46. “In a flowerpot of love lives a beautiful tulip plant, and then was the passer by with words to attract it; for, it was just like a passing glance and the sense of love, and they were both attracted to each other.” – Edward Kofi Louis
47. “And in the end, love tastes like tulips having rain tea in a colored cup.” – Fatima Shamla
48. “He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love with someone, but that you ‘had love toward’ her, as if it were a physical thing you could present and hold—a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness.” – Jodi Picoult
49. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
50. “I want to preserve your love in a field of tulips safely living in it.” – Fatima Shamla
51. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller
52. “She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.” – Joseph Fink
53. “Love is flower-like; friendship is like a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
54. “Friends are like flowers. They fill the world with beauty.” – Celeste Barnard
55. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” – Okakura Kakuzo
56. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” – Leigh Bardugo
57. “I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!” – Akilnathan Logeswaran
58. “I set out to find my peace in the skies and the tulips, in the howling of the winds, in the rain under the shed and it was right there residing within me.” – Suyasha Subedi
59. “The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.” – Chanakya
60. “Let us be grateful for the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom .” – Marcel Proust
61. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson
62. “I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that leaves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way.” – William Carlos Williams
63. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.” – Luther Burbank
64. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin
65. “You believe in God, for your part, ay? That He who makes, can make good things from ill things, best from worst, as men plant tulips upon dunghills when they wish them finest.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
66. “To me, flowers are happiness.” – Stefano Gabbana
67. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
68. “Let us live like flowers—wild, and beautiful, and drenched in the sun.” – Ellen Everett
69. “Almost every person from childhood has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.” – Lady Bird Johnson
70. “The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourishes the red tulips of our nation.” – Mahmud Tarzi
71. “The Japanese say, ‘If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.’” – Lester Cole
72. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” – Laurie Jean Sennott
73. “I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.” – Erin van Vuren
74. “A world of grief and pain, flowers bloom—even then.” – Kobayashi Issa
75. “Dreaming of wandering in the tulip fields.” – Anonymous
76. “Tiptoe through the tulips.” – Tiny Tim
77. “Even when petals have flaws, all you see is a beautiful flower.” – Adrianne Elizabeth
78. “Dutch tulips from their beds, flaunted their stately heads.” – James Montgomery
79. “You’re strictly a tulip girl—a red tulip girl.” – Alyson Noel
80. “Still life with tulips. We all need beauty in our lives.” – Anonymous
81. “Yes, it’s tulip season.” – Anonymous
82. “Just follow the tulips.” – Anonymous
83. “Let yourself go. You’re bound to bloom.” – Anonymous
84. “You can never have too many tulips.” – Anonymous
85. “Shine bright like a tulip.” – Anonymous
86. “Tulips heaven bloom in adversity.” – Anonymous
87. “Be a tulip in a field of weeds.” – Anonymous
88. “Don’t just live—bloom.” – Anonymous
89. “In the garden, tulips grow.” – Anonymous
90. “Let me take you down, ‘cause I’m going to tulip fields.” – Anonymous
91. “Anyone know how flowers whistle? Through their tulips.” – Anonymous
92. “Tulip in the sky.” – Anonymous
93. “Never look a Tulip in the eye.” – Anonymous
94. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” – Shannon Mullen
95. “When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.” – Adam Cohen
96. “‘Tulip Fever’ did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off—it opened doors to whole other worlds.” – Deborah Moggach
97. “And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.” – Stephen Briggs Terry Pratchett
98. “I’m going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.” – Norman Jewison