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come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers." - Vincent van Gogh
"If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower.
Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds." - Pam Stewart
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
But too great weight and largeness of his head." - Abraham Cowley
"With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn,
The same look which she turned when he rose!" - Thomas Moore
"Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand,