Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Rick Riordan

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

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.