A Sunflower Morning

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou

Who gazest ever true and tender

On the sun's revolving splendour.

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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 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

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