Sunflower And Friendship Quotes

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy ~ Thomas Bulfinch

We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations ... with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is. ~ Robert Farrar Capon

The sunflower is mine, in a way. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits. ~ Cecelia Ahern

look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day...it's as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun...so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower ~ Bodhi Smith

What god does a sunflower believe in? That's the god I believe in. ~ Marty Rubin

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood. ~ William Cullen Bryant

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. ~ Miranda Kerr

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. ~ Vera Nazarian

A sunflower teaches us so much about love. ~ Samrah Ahmad

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag
it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off. ~ Jerry Spinelli

She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people. ~ Avijeet Das

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. ~ Halle Berry

Restless sunflower; cease to move. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old. ~ Takeshi Kitano

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. ~ Miranda Kerr

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! ~ Allen Ginsberg

I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean. ~ Oliver Reed

The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again. Sometimes I followed the sunflower-bordered roads. Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced into that country by the Mormons; that at the time of the persecution when they left Missouri and struck out into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God in their own way, the members of the first exploring party, crossing the plains to Utah, scattered sunflower seeds as they went. The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, they had a sunflower trail to follow. I believe that botanists do not confirm Jake's story but, insist that the sunflower was native to those plains. Nevertheless, that legend has stuck in my mind, and sunflower-bordered roads always seem to me the roads to freedom. ~ Willa Cather

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. ~ Socrates

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them. ~ Sarah Morgan

I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides? ~ Michael Moss

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions. ~ Stephen Richards

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking ~ George Eliot

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ~ Wilson Mizner

Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. ~ John

I will not subscribe to your switch; the on and off friendship. ~ Xela Ffonrims

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. ~ Miranda Kerr

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. ~ Khalil Gibran

Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Treasure friendship in whatever form it takes. ~ Dawn Camp

Friendship in marriage is its own thing: friendship in a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, or a cappuccino every Sunday morning. Friendship in buying undershirts and underpants. Friendship in picking up a prescription or rescuing the towed car. Friendship in waiting for the phone call after the mammogram. Friendship in toast buttered just so. Friendship in shoveling the snow. I am the one you want to tell. You are the one I want to tell. ~ Elizabeth Alexander

Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn) ~ Vikrmn

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. ~ Charles Jencks

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. ~ Warren Christopher

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious. ~ Confucius

After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else! ~ Pawan Mishra

A road to a friend's house is never long. ~ Ann Richards

In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you. ~ Michael Chabon

Lovers have a right to betray you ... friends don't. ~ Judy Holliday

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. ~ William Penn

The value of friendship is based on a solid underline friendship. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first. ~ Mario Puzo

True friendship is rare. Don't let a little dispute ruin a friendship. ~ Steve Maraboli

When someone loves you or have good friendship, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ~ Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ~ Aristotle.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it. ~ Alexandre Dumas

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. ~ Aelred Of Rievaulx

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers. ~ Martin Firrell

Later, gator."
"In an hour, sunflower. ~ Alexandra Bracken

Her smile put the sunflower to shame. ~ Jerry Spinelli

What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship bracelets, poems, ring ~ Mark Vernon

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to. ~ Alessandro Manzoni

Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended ~ T. S. Eliot

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ~ Oscar Wilde

Sometimes, even those whom we consider as our close friends may betray us so easily, in a moment when we do not even expect it. Such is the truth of life, despite so many eloquent odes humanity dedicated to friendship. ~ Sahara Sanders

True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk. ~ Lauren Bjorkman

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life
and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. ~ Dean Koontz

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new ... is neither strong nor pure. ~ Edward Young

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. ~ Richard Brautigan

Everyone around her was just between escaping something and not knowing what might come for them next. All they could do was find those people whose hands they would hold fast when they ran. ~ Elizabeth Ames

Friendship doesn't last forever, what last forever is the pain ~ Patrick Evangelista

Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye
corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,
leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear ~ Allen Ginsberg

Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you. ~ Shivam Singh

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. ~ Jennifer Chiaverini

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. ~ Markus Zusak

A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Genuine and lasting friendship is possible, but it is not easy to achieve. If all of us could establish a long lasting friendship, many mature people would still have old friends from their school days. ~ Eraldo Banovac

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed ... ~ C.S. Lewis

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge. ~ Seneca.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay. ~ Samuel Johnson

The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy. ~ Glenn C. Stewart

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~ Oscar Wilde

The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, "that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential. ~ Dalai Lama

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love. ~ Mariama Ba

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation. ~ Sean Covey

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be. ~ Harriet Lerner

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue. ~ Mencius

Friendship is special because it is freely chosen. Our friends want us as their friend for our own sake. No other relationship, either professional or kinship, can give what friendship gives. ~ Hans Reinders

If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime,anywhere ~ Rahul Bodkhe

Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it. ~ Stuart Miller

We're all golden sunflowers inside. ~ Allen Ginsberg

If I have to question a friendship, then it wasn't a friendship to begin with. ~ Peprah Boasiako

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. ~ Anne Lamott

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced
true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. ~ Charlotte Bronte

If friendship is like a cathedral, then forsaken friendship is like roofless ruins... ~ Hilary Thayer Hamann

Endless love is fueled by endless friendship. If you want to have the greatest romance ever, have the greatest friendship ever. Cultivate it; do not let your friendship die. Remember, it's not a lack of love that destroys relationships; it's usually a lack of friendship. ~ Steve Maraboli

Friendship is something ritualistic, performed; you must go through the ceremonies and motions to create it. Proclaim friendship often enough, and it just might be forced into existence ~ Sulmaan Wasif Khan

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess. ~ Jim George

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. ~ Simone Weil

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. ~ T. S. Eliot

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ~ Jean De La Bruyere