Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

Rose Schneiderman

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too,

Rick Riordan

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.

Ovid

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Paulo Coelho

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

Primo Levi

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

Prince Charles

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Robert Frost

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

Thomas Davis

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

Thomas Sowell

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Samuel Rutherford

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

Richard M. Nixon

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Robert Caro

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

Tupac Shakur

we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how

Tupac Shakur

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared.

Rudyard Kipling

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...

Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

Wallace Stevens

How red the rose that is the soldier

Willa Cather

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

Walter Benjamin

You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.

Rudolf Steiner

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

Wendy Craig

One rose says more than the dozen.

Stephenie Meyer

You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?

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.