Rose Quotes - Page 10

• I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

  Ruben Dario

  Style, Bud, Want

  Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.60, University of Texas Press

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• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Flower, Eagles

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.18, Souvenir Press

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  Christina Aguilera

  Rain, Butterfly, Names

  Song: Too Beautiful For Words

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Path, Cannabis

  Walter Benjamin (2006). “On Hashish”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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

  Rocky Marciano

  Boxing, Garbage, Dump

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• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
  As the flames rose to her Roman nose
  And her Walkman started to melt...

  Steven Morrissey

  Flames, Noses, Arcs

  "Song: 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'". 1986.

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.

  Ben Harper

  Mean, Enemy, Stones

  Song: Roses From My Friends, 2001

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• The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Garden, White, Role Models

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• Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

  George Sandys

  Lips, Dropping

  George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349

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• La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.'

  Sabrina

  Glasses, World, Way

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• While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

  Harriet Harman

  Couple, Garden, Law

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Color, Elements, Body

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• And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

  Henry Abbey

  Stars, Inspiration, Air

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• Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

  Tim Lebbon

  Growing Up, Bed Of Roses, Doors

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• In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

  Nathalia Crane

  Color, Darkness, Answers

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Great is the rose
  That challenges the crypt,
  And quotes milleniums
  Against the grave.

  Nathalia Crane

  Challenges, Graves

  "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Morning, Night, Feet

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• Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.

  Susan Kay

  Flower, Night, Two

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Giving Up, Space, Silence

  The City Hall Square Speech, July 25, 2011.

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• Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

  Dannie Abse

  Garden, Tree, Soul

  Dannie Abse (2001). “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography”, Vintage

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• I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

  Elsa Barker

  Kings, Women, Garden

  Elsa Barker, “The Mystic Rose”

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• Maybe love isn't just
  a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when
  you're tired.

  Kristan Higgins

  Tired, Love Is, Mad

  Kristan Higgins (2013). “The Best Man”, p.279, HQN Books

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• One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sweet, Buddhism, Science

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