Single Rose Quotes:

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Life, Mother, Memories, Unsatisfied, Endless Journey

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Heart, Eye, Garden, Single Rose

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.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

topic: Freedom, Rain, Order, World Water Day, Control Ourselves

It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses." "That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much." "Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now." Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone?

- Barry Lyga

topic: School, Eye, Giving, Single Rose

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

- Delta Burke

topic: Flower, Rose, Want, Single Rose

When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.

- Jens Stoltenberg

source: "We Choose Dignity" by Jens Stoltenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

topic: Kindness, Fall, Caring, Coming Together, Small Acts