Seeds of Love | 100+ Sunflower Quotes
Sunflowers are the joy of summer! Surely you marvel at the beauty of flowers, but in fact, did you know it is this unique one that has the ability to provide energy in the form of nourishment and vibrancy? It is the vividness of the yellow petals which convey feelings of positivity and delight, which is why most celebrities agree on looking to them for a smile to brighten any day. Therefore, If you are feeling a bit gloomy, look no further. After all, in a moment of true pop inspiration the British band Tears for Fears praised the power of its seeds of love.
Don’t just be dazzled by their elegance and standing tall grace, but go a step further and read on to be inspired and motivated to have an uplifting outlook and optimism. This remarkable selection of quotes by renowned entrepreneurs, poets, actors and more will remind you, family and friends of how a little yellow boost can go a long way.
Table of Contents
- Uplifting Sunflower Quotes
- Short Quotes and Sunflower Captions
- Inspirational Sunflower Quotes
- Hippie Sunflower Quotes
- Cute Sunflower Quotes
- Happiness Sunflower Quotes
- Sunflower Love Quotes
Uplifting Sunflower Quotes
- Make it like a sunflower. Steve Jobs
- Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine. Lailah Gifty Akita
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do. Helen Keller
- …Always hold your head high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light. Malene Rossau
- Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you. Maori Proverb
- 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. Miranda Kerr
- Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers. Joe Hill
- A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome. Matshona Dhliwayo
- 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
- You’ll emerge so bright that the haters will be blinded. And darling, you’ll be the sun then, bright and beautiful, but they won’t be your sunflowers. Minahil
- Wherever the sun goesThe sunflower will follow
Through all of the pain
And all of the sorrow. Londrelle - 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 - Come with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them. Mary Oliver
- 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
- I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower.. 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. Helen Mirren
Short Quotes and Sunflower Captions
- A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns. Corina Abdulahm-Negura
- Restless sunflower; cease to move. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Sunflowers Never Lie. Emily Byrnes
- …sunflower-bordered roads always seem to me the roads to freedom. Willa Cather
- Sunflowers are like people to me. Joan Mitchell
- I love a sunflower / and I believe in / love power. Tears for Fears, Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Like sunflowers, galaxies, and fingerprints, your life is an intricately designed spiral. Kristen Lee
- And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood. William Cullen Bryant
- Standing among the sunflowers, I craved divinity. Michael Paterniti
- And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning’s beam. Ebenezer Elliott
- Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. Like a field of sunflowers. Fiona Valpy
- Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there. J.R. Rim
- Top-heavy sunflowers droop, their leaves baked golden by the August sun. Barbara Stuber
- Sunflowers and seashells and logarithmic spirals… Keri Hulme
- She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people. Avijeet Das
- The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. Robert Leighton
- Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower. Vera Nazarian
- You look beautiful as a sunflower and charming as a rose. Avijeet Das
- Attention shifted … like sunflowers turning to the sun. Khaled Hosseini
- Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets. Edna Ferber
- They’re in bloom because they’ve found where they belong. Mark Sippings
- The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness! Mehmet Murat Ildan
- She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat. Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Do you know where the sunflowers’ lights go when they die? Adriani Putri
- I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. Halle Berry
- I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine. Kay Kay Menon
- Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance and brilliance in a sunflower. Unknown
- The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy. Thomas Bulfinch
- You may know that the peony is Jeannin’s, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way. Vincent van Gogh
- Yellow is my favorite summer color – it makes me feel like a sunflower. Bria Vinaite
- A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower. Jeanne Desy
- Van Gogh’s sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did. Kassia St. Clair
- There are not too many fables about man’s misuse of sunflower seeds. Richard Brautigan
Inspirational Sunflower Quotes
- In a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower. Thornless. Unwithering. Abundant in seeds. JaTawny M. Chatmon
- The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. Richard Rohr
- True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time. Marie Williams Johnstone
- Despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives — sunflowers. Rupi Kaur
- The head of all flower heads is one flower, the sunflower in the sky, that gives the other vivid color stemming from the inside. Curtis Tyrone Jones
- Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Jean Paul Richter
- Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre… and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. Charles Jencks
- Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or 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 hollyhock. 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
- To be nothing. Of all the ways the sunflower has of loving light, regret is the most beautiful shadow on the sun dial. André Breton & Paul Éluard
- “Bibliotropic,” Hugh said. “Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.” Jo Walton
- When it comes to inspiration, you act like a sunflower. We take inspiration from everywhere. Domenico Dolce
Hippie Sunflower Quotes
- Tomorrow it may rain, so I’ll follow the sun. The Beatles
- …we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment. Allen Ginsberg
- What god does a sunflower believe in? That’s the god I believe in. Marty Rubin
- Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun. Kahlil Gibran
- Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun. Remez Sasson
- .. when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds. Vladimir Nabokov
- Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns? Allen Ginsberg
- A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze! Allen Ginsberg
- The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. Chuck Jones
Cute Sunflower Quotes
- Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
Who gazest ever true and tender
On the sun’s revolving splendour.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca - His eyes were the colour of gold, of sunflowers and butterscotch and lemons hanging heavy on their boughs. Jest Marissa Meyer
- Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her? Simone Elkeles
- The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. Rabindranath Tagore
- 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 - The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame
To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame;
It was not sleep that made him nod, he said,
But too great weight and largeness of his head.
Abraham Cowley - When a flower and a child come together, it makes two flowers or two children because every child is a flower, and every flower is a child. Mehmet Murat ildan
- What do sunflowers talk about after dusk
when the wind goes down and the moon comes up?
David Etter - My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums… Mary Oliver
- 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 - Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God’s blessing, but constant in looking to Him. Jean Paul
- 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
Happiness Sunflower Quotes
- Happy, he was my image of it, bright sunflowers in a field of green. Dawn Lanuza
- Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower. Shunryu Suzuki
- 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
- My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Mary Oliver
- I think it’s something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it is just some kind of core human experience. Joe Lycett
- Birds, and bees, and rustling trees create a summer tune. Flanked by fields of sunflowers, hand in hand we walk. As the gentle sound of nature surround s us while we talk. Steve Cleverley
- Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof. Gyula Krúdy
- So, I’m off to the market to buy a few sunflowers to place in a vase on my kitchen table. Have a beautiful day! Olivia Dunn
- The happiest field in all the harvest is the field of sunflowers at their peak.Drinking the rays and dancing in the breeze.The saddest field is the same field, six weeks later.Drunk on the sun and burnt with shame,they drop their heads to hide their mane. R.S. Barrington
- Ah, Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime,
Where the traveller’s journal done.
William Blake
Sunflower Love Quotes
- A sunflower teaches us so much about love. Samrah Ahmad
- Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. Jandy Nelson
- Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! Allen Ginsberg
- Everything inside me blooms for you. Like a sunflower coming to life. You’ve turned me into a sunflower. Lauren Blakely
- 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
- Sunflowers waiting for the sunshine.Violets just waiting for dew.Bees just waiting for honeyAnd honey, I’m just waiting for you! Mitch Albom
- All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun. Micah Nemerever
- My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun. Patricia Briggs
- 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
- I will admit you are the finest if not the loveliest rose in the garden. But you see, my dear, I was looking for a sunflower. Richelle E. Goodrich
- And to this day I love endless landscapes, big horizons, sunflowers, and narcissi. Gisela Hausmann
- 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 setsThe same look which she turned when he rose! Thomas Moore
- 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
- 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
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