80+ Tulip Quotes: An Eternal & Resilient Beauty

Tulip, also known as “diamond tulip”, is a six petal flower with a bell or star shape that is extremely symmetrical. As Tulips are one of the first flowers to bloom in Spring, they represent rebirth. And when it comes to tulips, people often think of the beautiful Netherlands, because tulips are a typical symbol of the Netherlands.

The name Tulip comes from the French word Tulipe, the flower first appeared in the Ottoman Empire, also known as in present-day, Turkey. In addition, the name Tulip also comes from the Persian term “delband”, which means turban. Tulips are considered one of the most beautiful flowers because of their vibrant and diverse colors. In the world, there are about 100 species and thousands of different varieties which are often grown in countries with cold climates.

Tulips have a unique and different kind of beauty, each color of this flower has its own meaning. From pure white, to yellow, red, brown and purple,… always bring us the pleasant and comfortable feeling. Therefore, tulip quotes below will give readers a sense of purity, fullness and relaxation as tulips are not too elegant, not too romantic, not too big or too small, tulips are always just right.

• Life isn’t a tiptoe through the tulips. ― Shannon Hoon
• Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. ― Rebecca Wells
• When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world. ― Adam Cohen
• How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing. ― Mary Astell
• I’m going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. ― Norman Jewison
• If a purple tulip could talk she would say something calm, cool and wise, without the flash of a soothing balm. ― Amelia Brown, A Poem of Encouragement.
• In a flowerpot of love lives a beautiful tulip plant, and then was the passer by with words to attract it; for, it was just like a passing glance and the sense of love, and they were both attracted to each other. ― Edward Kofi Louis.
• Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, bending beneath the invisible west-wind’s sighs. ― Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), ‘The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan’.
• Tulips were a tray of jewels. ― E.M. Forster, ‘Howards End,’ 1910.
• All my tulips are white. She liked them red. I stained them with my blood and she came running for hug. Every Tulip that blossomed since became hungry for my red. One day I ran out of my blood the next one that came flowered in white. That’s the end of us. ― Kalyan Reddy
• I want to preserve your love in a field of Tulips safely living in it. ― Fathima Shamla
• She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip. ― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale.
• Contempt for flowers is an offense against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offense in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably. ― Alexandre Dumas
• Sweet scents red tulips, red tulips bring such happiness. Our hearts are full of pleasure. ― Natasa Tocuc
• A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. ― Marianne Williamson.
• I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way. ― William Carlos Williams, To a Dog Injured in the Street
• Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. ― Rebecca Wells
• Guarded within the old red wall’s embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry wheels out into the sunlight. ― Amy Lowell, A Tulip Garden
• Life isn’t a tiptoe through the tulips. ― Shannon Hoon
• And in the end, love tastes like Tulips having rain tea in a colored cup. ― Fathima Shamla
• You believe In God, for your part? ay? that He who makes, can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when they wish them finest. ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourishes the red tulips of our nation. ― Anonymous
• And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty’s secret nearer. ― Elizabeth Browning
• Here tulips bloom as they are told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose. ― Rupert Brooke
• Dutch tulips from their beds Flaunted their stately heads. ― James Montgomery
• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers. ― Alan Coren
• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love’s most honeyed kiss, This art of writing billet-doux In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies. ― Leigh Hunt
• A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted. ― Marianne Williamson
• Tulip Fever’ did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off – it opened doors on to whole other worlds. ― Deborah Moggach
• Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection – charm. ― Monty Don
• I set out to find my peace in the skies and the tulips, in the howling of the winds, in the rain under the shed and it was right there residing within me. ― Suyasha Subedi
• Snow is both sides of the same page, It covers the grave and the tulip. ― Richard L. Ratliff
• I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face. ― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
• Never blur or erase love for those who once brought greenery and blossomed tulips during the dry and thorny phase. ― Spriha Kant
• Dreaming of wandering in the tulip fields. ― Anonymous
• Still life with tulips. We all need beauty in our lives. ― Anonymous
• Yes, it’s tulip season. ― Anonymous
• Just follow the tulips. ― Anonymous
• Shine bright like a tulip. ― Anonymous
• Tulips heaven bloom in adversity. ― Anonymous
• Be a tulip in a field of weeds. ― Anonymous
• Don’t just live—bloom. ― Anonymous
• In the garden, tulips grow. ― Anonymous
• Let me take you down, ‘cause I’m going to tulip fields. ― Anonymous
• Anyone know how flowers whistle? Through their tulips. ― Anonymous
• Tulip in the sky. ― Anonymous
• Never look a Tulip in the eye. ― Anonymous
• I’m going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. ― Norman Jewison
• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection? ― Amy Lowell
• I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I’m sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character. — Justina Chen
• Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips. — Alice Hoffman
• You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. — Truman Capote
• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. — Andrei Gromyko
• As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: “Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.” “What’s that?” Anna asked. “Water,” the Dutchman said. “Well, and time. — John Green
• Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat. — Tahereh Mafi
• Tiptoe through the tulips with me. — Al Dubin
• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. — Marge Piercy
• In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips. — Albert Camus
• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent. — Mark Doty
• The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. — Isaac Watts
• You’re strictly a tulip girl—a red tulip girl. — Alyson Noel
• June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children’s hands with posies. — Sara Coleridge
• I’m going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. — Norman Jewison
• I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it. — Lucy Christopher
• Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench. — Terry Pratchett
• So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it. — Tadashi Shoji
• How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing. — Mary Astell
• Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends. — James Thurber
• People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. — Warren Buffett
• If you’re in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses. — Clinton Smith
• I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit. — Vincent Van Gogh
• The tulips are too red… they hurt me. — Sylvia Plath
• Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can’t trust over night. — Constance Spry
• The tulip’s petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike. — James Montgomery
• The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. — Marya Hornbacher
• If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. — John Green
• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection? — Amy Lowell
• Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, ‘Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, ‘Tis mantled by the vine. — William C. Bryant
• Never look a tulip in the eye. — Lulu
• I’m a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up. — Fiona Apple
• The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. — George T. Delacorte, Jr.
• What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It’s using up air; it’s using up energy. It’s really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here’s this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce – they’re all doing this dance. — Alan Watts
• Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. — Rebecca Wells
• An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love’s most honeyed kiss,– This art of writing billet-doux– In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies. — Leigh Hunt
• Guarded within the old red wall’s embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight. — Amy Lowell
• It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions. — Lewis Carroll
• The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi

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