Rose Garden Quotes:

I never promised you a rose garden.

- Traian Basescu

topic: Garden, Rose, Rose Garden, Ordinary People, Blood Promise

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

source: "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Future, Blooming

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

- Katharine Lee Bates

source: Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

topic: Sweet, Rose, World, Red Rose, Rose Garden

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

source: To a young lady; attributed

topic: Life, Flower, Garden, Rose Garden, Roses And Love

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Love, Memories, Garden, Rose Garden, Quartets

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Inspirational Gardening, Inspirational Positive Attitude

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

- Rumi

source: Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

topic: Passion, Kissing, Garden, Rose Garden

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

- Rumi

topic: Heart, Garden, Rose, Rose Garden

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

- Lynn Anderson

topic: Relationship, Rain, Sunshine, Rose Garden

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

- Rumi

topic: Garden, Fire, Rose, Thistles, Rose Garden

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Sweet, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Star Crossed Lovers

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

- Lily Allen

source: "Does Lily Allen's new website take digs at Cheryl Cole, Beyoncé and Perez Hilton?" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, Garden, Rose, Wasps, Rose Garden

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

- Rumi

source: Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”

topic: Garden, Rose, Vision, Rose Garden

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Rain, Flower, Inspirational Rain, Plant A Tree

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Stars, Eye, Passion, Evening Sky, Rose Garden

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Wall, Flower, Twilight, Flattered, Bed Of Roses

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

- Jack Canfield

topic: Art, Passion, Garden, Rose Garden

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

- Joanne Greenberg

source: Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.108, Macmillan

topic: Lying, Garden, Rose, Rose Garden

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Life, Nature, Flower, Blooming Flower, Funny Valentines Day

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

- Dick Gregory

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: School, College, Garden, Best School, Rose Garden

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Writing, Garden, Rose, Letter Writing, Something Unexpected

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

- Toots Thielemans

topic: Garden, Rose, Musician, Rose Garden

Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?

- Julia Caroline Dorr

topic: Beautiful, Sweet, Queens, Rose Garden, Beautiful Rose

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

- Cy Twombly

topic: Hate, Cutting, Garden, Rose Garden

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Flower, Garden, Thinking, Rose Garden, Boulevard

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

- Liu Yang

topic: Heart, Garden, Blue, Red Rose, Rose Garden

...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

- Elizabeth Goudge

topic: Butterfly, Simple, Garden, Rose Garden

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Eye, Garden, Grieving, Rose Garden, Typhoons

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Taken, Garden, Sight, Peeping, Progeny

Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Children, Pain, Garden, Child Development, Rose Garden

I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

- John Kasich

source: John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: Commitment, Garden, Kuwait, Rose Garden

I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.

- Merrell Fankhauser

topic: Beach, Player, Garden, Cossacks, Rose Garden

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Rip, Garden, Thinking, Vegetable Garden, Rose Garden

I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.

- Home Run Baker

topic: Baseball, Garden, Rose, Fellas, Rose Garden

Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

- R. W. Apple

topic: Country, Dog, Horse, Rose Garden, Battle Of Britain

The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

- Barack Obama

source: Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in Second Presidential Debate, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 17, 2012.

topic: Garden, People, Rose, Rose Garden, Acts Of Terror

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

- John Irving

topic: Mother, Party, Dirty, Cocktail Parties, Cocktail Dresses

The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Garden, White, Rose, Secret Service, Brady

While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

- Harriet Harman

source: House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. May 25, 2010.

topic: Couple, Garden, Law, Rose Garden, Tax Breaks

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

- Francine Prose

topic: Writing, Garden, Rose, Rose Garden

White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Blow, Garden, White, White Rose, Snowdrops

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

- George W. Bush

source: Remarks on the Economy, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2008.

topic: Garden, Thinking, Rose, Rose Garden, Magic Wands

It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.

- George W. Bush

topic: Beautiful, Humor, Garden, Rose Garden

I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

- Dougray Scott

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Horse, Military, Book, Method Acting, Rose Garden

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

topic: Kissing, Garden, Feet, Rose Garden, American Author