These sunflower quotes are inspirational. Sunflower is an herbaceous annual plant, has a thick, hairy erect stem that gives rise to a flower head. Some of them are grown for oil, seeds, and food. They bloom during summer and into autumn. Sunflowers turn to the sun, therefore; their name is sunflowers. These flowers have a warm appearance. They are so unique as they stand tall and are known for being happy. They are free to bloom. All the flowers are a source of happiness and pleasure but, sunflowers give you strength as well.
35 Sunflower Quotes
- “Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.” Vera Nazarian
- “Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you.” Maori Proverb
- “In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun’s rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you every day I wake up and it is going to do that forever.” Sheila Carey
- “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
- “The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.” Martin Firrel
- “The gaudy leonine sunflower hangs black and barren on its stalk and down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter – hour by hour.” Oscar Wilde
- “Sunflower on the shoreline / Shining brightly underneath the moonlight / Caught me by surprise.” Audio Medic
- “I don’t want to go to Peru. “How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.” Richard Paul Evans
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. This is what sunflowers do.” Helen Keller
- “Make it like a sunflower.”
- “Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.” Henry Ward Beecher
- “Ah Sunflower, weary of time / Who countest the steps of the sun; / Seeking after that sweet golden clime / Where the traveler’s journey is done.” William Blake
- “The Sunflower, thinking ’twas for him foul shame to nap by daylight, strove to excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.” Abraham Cowley
- “Sunflowers growing / Through a crack in the sidewalk / Have what it takes to survive / Tough times pass / The things people do / Just to stay alive.” Bob Crewe
- “A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” Corina Abdulahm-Negura
- “If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.” Matshona Dhliwayo
- “Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.” Old French Proverb
- “Wherever the sun goes / The sunflower will follow / Through all of the pain / And all of the sorrow.” Londrelle
- “It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, and thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear, That the fervor and faith of a soul may be known, to which time will but make thee more dear! Oh the heart that has truly loved never forgets, but as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns to her god when he sets The same look which she turned when he rose!” Thomas Moore
- “The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.” Thomas Bulfinch
- “Sunflowers in the tall grass, / We were born to thrive but not born to last, and / I’ve been sleeping the rainy months away.” Andrew Capra
- “And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.” William Cullen Bryant
- “True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.” Marie Williams Johnstone
- “I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.” Vincent Van Gogh
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevensen
- “Sunflowers in spring, they’re just like you / Sunflower wipe away your tears / All your doubts and fears / You were born to fly, so high.” Alice Peacock
- “With zealous step, he climbs the upland lawn, and bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, and watches, as it moves, the orb of day.” Erasmus Darwin
- “The sunflowers / They lined her way that day / And smiled at the sky / As the birds flew on their way.” Jetty Rae LLC
- “Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.” R. Rim
- “We’re all golden sunflowers inside.” Allen Ginsberg
- “Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.” Jean Paul Richter
- “Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidities swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.” Eugenio Montale
- “Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its center, 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
- “Light-enchanted sunflower, thou who gazest ever true and tender On the sun’s revolving splendor.” Pedro Calderon de la Barca
