Rose Quotes

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

Princess, you could never be that. You are unique to me. (Zarek) Am I your rose? (Astrid) Yes, you are my rose. There is only one of you in all the millions of planets and stars. (Zarek)

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.

How red the rose that is the soldier

Who gathers the withered rose?

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose.

Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!

Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

Rose took my nose, I suppose

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.