I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.
— Nhat Hanh
Sensitive Dandelion Seeds quotations

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts
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.
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.

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
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.
L I K E is like a bunch of dandelion seeds falling beautifully on the ground.
It's a soft and good feeling but can come and go at any time L O V E is when those same dandelion seeds become firmly rooted sowing its seeds and growing another dandelion on the spot. It takes a lot of energy to grow the dandelion like protecting it from the wind and giving it water and sunlight but it becomes very precious and beautiful in the end

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.