Quotes and Sayings About Rose
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Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
-- A. B. Simpson -
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
-- A. E. Housman -
I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
-- A. J. McLean -
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
-- Abel Ferrara -
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
-- Aberjhani -
Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
-- Abraham Cowley -
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it. The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
-- Adrienne Rich -
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
-- Agatha Christie -
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
-- Alan Bennett -
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
-- Alan Keyes -
Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
-- Alex Flinn -
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
-- Alexander Pope -
So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.
-- Alfred Austin -
My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
-- Alfred Austin -
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?
-- Alfred Polgar -
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
-- Alice Hoffman -
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
-- Amado V. Hernandez -
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.
-- Amanda McBroom -
The things that let you down are the things that let you see how far you have rose.
-- Amani -
Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
-- Amy Lowell -
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.
-- Andre Comte-Sponville