Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Anna Julia Cooper

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...

Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Amy Winehouse

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.

Alexander Pope

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Dr. Seuss

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Davy Jones

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Angelus Silesius

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

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Alphonse Karr

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

He was a (junior varsity) wrestler until about two weeks ago. He rose to the challenge.

Tom Williams

He rose to the occasion. It's the second time he's run it.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!

Cecil Beaton

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Bernadette Peters

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

Texas comes out smelling like a rose so far.

Charlton Heston

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

James Montgomery

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Henry Van Dyke

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Jose Saramago

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Jonathan Swift

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Lisa Vanderpump

Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.

Louis Aragon

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

Omar Khayyam

The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

Emily Dickinson

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Billy Connolly

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

Gertrude Stein

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

Eugene Ionesco

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...

Erma Bombeck

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.