Rose Quotes

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that...protecting her like that - it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?" Rose: "Because I'm her guardian."

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.

That's what I was supposed to say.

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.