Mandy Kirkby > Quotes

“We plant, we nurture, we grow and we give, different flowers for different moments in time, but all for the same purpose: to say that which cannot be said, and to say it with beauty and with grace.”
― Mandy Kirkby, A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion

“ancient Celtic belief that when a child dies at birth, an angel throws a daisy down upon the earth to console the bereft parents.”
― Mandy Kirkby, A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion