40+ Sunflower Quotes and Sayings to Bring Happiness
Sunflowers are a cheery flower and symbol of sunshine and happiness. Here are 40+ inspiring sunflower quotes and quotes about sunflowers.
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Sunflowers are an inspiring flower symbolically and metaphorically not only because of their cheery yellow petals that look like suns, but also because they turn their heads to face the sun and follow it throughout the day.
At night, they face toward the east and wait for the sun to rise again.
In this way, sun flowers are the perfect metaphor for human optimism in life – they look for the good in life, and when everything is dark, they turn to face where they expect the sun to rise again.
40+ Quotes About Sunflowers | Sunflower Quotes
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.” – Helen Keller
“Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.” – Kahlil Gibran
“A sunflower poem: The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and when he warm returns. Points her enamor’d bosom to his ray.” – James Thomson
“Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.” – Unknown
“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
“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” – Edna Ferber
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevensen
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.” – Vincent van Gogh
“I want to be like a sunflower so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.” – Unknown
“Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.” – J.R. Rim
“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
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“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.” – Jean Paul
““Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you.” – Maori Proverb
“Sunflowers are like people to me.” – Joan Mitchell
“The head of all flower heads is one flower; the sunflower in the sky, that gives the others vivid color stemming from the inside.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.” – Eugenio Montale
“Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun’s revolving splendour.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs.” – Jandy Nelson
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.” – Vera Nazarian
“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.” – Thomas Bulfinch
“True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.” – Marie Williams Johnstone
“And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning’s beam.” – Ebenezer Elliott
“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
“Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?” – Allen Ginsberg
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More Sayings About Sunflowers
“If I were a flower… I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.” – Pam Stewart
“Her smile put the sunflower to shame.” – Jerry Spinelli
“Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance and brilliance in a sunflower.” – Unknown
“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
“Despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives — sunflowers.” – Rupi Kaur
“As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan
“Which makes it ironic my favorite flower isn’t even indigenous to the British Isles, let alone Yorkshire. I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me, that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.” – Tim Firth
“A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” – Corina Abdulahm-Negura
“Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.” – French Proverb
“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.” – William Cullen Bryant
“Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?” – Simone Elkeles
“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.” – Martin Firrell
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