Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Frost

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

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.

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.

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.

Sylvia Browne

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

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?

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.

Washington Irving

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

William Butler Yeats

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

William Wordsworth

The budding rose above the rose full blown.

William Morris Hunt

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

William Faulkner

Who gathers the withered rose?

Zadie Smith

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.