Rose Quotes - Page 11

• I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Real, Thinking, Mind

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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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• A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.

  Nixon Waterman

  Wreaths, Sumptuous

  Nixon Waterman (1919). “The Girl Wanted: A Book of Friendly Thoughts”

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• The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Understanding, World, Growing

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses.

  John S. Hall

  Smell, Order, Appreciate

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Years, Waiting, Revision

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

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• Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.

  Nathalia Crane

  Children, Flower, Half

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• Great is the rose
  Infected by the tomb,
  Yet burgeoning
  Indifferent to death.

  Nathalia Crane

  Indifferent, Tombs

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

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• Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.

  Anna Quindlen

  Change, Thinking, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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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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• People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Glasses, Breathing

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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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• The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Light, Years

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• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
  Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
  Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
  Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
  Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
  Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
  Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
  And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Growing Up, Nuts

  Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  John Milton

  Men, Bird, Hyacinths

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698-705.

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• The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

  Heinrich Heine

  Love, Lilies, Sun

  Heinrich Heine (1856). “Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs”, p.109

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• What mighty woes
  To thy imperial race from woman rose.

  Homer

  Women, Race, Woe

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.331

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• We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

  John Ruskin

  Healthy, Gothic, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.16

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• After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

  Cecil Beaton

  Bed, Twenties, Asparagus

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Sea, Two

  Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Sydney McDowall (2004). “Three Tales”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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