Dandelion Quotes

Well known (and some not-so-well-known) Quotes, Famous and obscure Sayings, and Popular Verse and Lyric related to orabout the humble (but glorious!) dandelion weed/flower; literal and metaphorical. Many of these quotations are both inspirational and intellectually stimulating at the same time. (while you ponder that, in the meantime, this is definitely a cure for boredom, right?)

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"I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff." ~*Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Sophie Townley (English Author)

Excerpt from book "Twenties Girl"

"Dandelions don't tell no lies." ~*Mick Jagger (English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer/lead singer of the Rolling Stones)

Line from the song "Dandelion"

"You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity. " ~*Hal Borland (American author, journalist and naturalist)

"She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are" ~*Melvin Burgess (British writer of children's fiction)

"Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?" ~*Adam Johnson (American novelist and short story writer)

Excerpt from book "The Orphan Master's Son"

"Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground. " ~*Anne Morrow Lindbergh(American author and aviator/wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh)

"Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass." ~*Confucius (Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period)

"Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds. " ~*P.W. Catanese (American author and advertising writer)

Excerpt from the book "Happenstance Found"

"The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock." ~*Miles Kington (British journalist, musician and broadcaster)

"You cannot forget, if you would, those golden kisses all over the cheels of the meadow, queerly called dandelions." ~*Henry Ward Beecher -- Star Paper. A Discourse of Flowers. (American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker)

" To some the dandelion is a weed; but not to me, unless it takes more than its share of space, for I always miss these little earth stars when they are absent. They intensify the sunshine shimmering on the lawn, making one smile involuntarily when seeing them. Moreover, they awaken pleasant memories, for a childhood in which dandelions had no part is a defective experience." ~*Edward Payson Roe ( American novelist)

" The dandelion 'copies in gold upon the green expanse
The stars of the midnight sky" ~*John Burroughs (American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement)

"I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world." ~*Sarah J. Maas (American fantasy author)

Excerpt from the book "A Court of Thorns and Roses"

"Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive." ~*Robert Wright (American journalist)

Excerpt from the Article "The Dandelion King" - Opinionator

"I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high. " ~*P. C. Cast (American romance/fantasy author)

Excerpt from the book "House of Night Series - Books 1"

"Pale little dandelion in her white shroud
Heareth the angel-breeze Call from the cloud;
Tiny plumes fluttering no delay,
Little winged Dandelion Soareth away." ~*Helen Barron Bostwick (American Poet)

"Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it" ~*Walter Wink (American biblical scholar, theologian, and activist)

"Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again." ~*Elizabeth Bowen (Irish-British novelist and short story writer)

Excerpt from the book "The Heat of the Day"