Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Van Dyke

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

James Montgomery

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

Ellen Hopkins

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

Julie Harris

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

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.

Karen Abbott

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

John Keats

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

John Keats

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

John Keats

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

Jonathan Swift

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

Rick Riordan

As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.

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.

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.

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.

Therese of Lisieux

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Terry Pratchett

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Terry Pratchett

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Syd Barrett

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

Ovid

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

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.

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.