Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Kerr

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

Philip Roth

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Philip James Bailey

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

Maureen Johnson

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Sallust

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

Saadi

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Rumi

What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.

Rumi

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

Rumi

What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.

Sukarno

Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.

Steve Carlton

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Pete Rose

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Leonard Nimoy

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

Syd Barrett

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

Sylvia Plath

I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.

Sylvia Plath

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

Sylvia Plath

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.

Rumi

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

Rumi

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

Tom Flynn

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Steve Martin

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

Steven Tyler

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

Sylvia Browne

Plant now the roses of Hope, Love, Promise, God Consciousness, and the Glory of your Soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Richelle Mead

Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile there. 'Well at least not in such a public setting.'- Dimitri Belikov

Richelle Mead

Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.

Richelle Mead

To my surprise, I recognized Dimitri Belikov-Rose's boyfriend-among those doing crowd control. He was easy to spot since he was almost always taller than everyone around him. Dhampirs look very human, and even I could admit that he was pretty good-looking. There was a rugged handsomeness to him, and even in a still photograph, I could see a fierceness as he watched the crowd.

Richelle Mead

We can be together, Rose. Soon. We're almost there. And nothing will ever keep us apart.......

Richelle Mead

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

Richelle Mead

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