Rose Quotes - Page 18

• Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Country, Men, Race

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (2008). “T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928”

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• Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

  R. W. Apple

  Country, Dog, Horse

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• There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Gun, Shoes

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And still I look for the men who will dare to be
  roses of England
  wild roses of England
  men who are wild roses of England
  with metal thorns, beware!
  but still more brave and still more rare
  the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world
  fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies
  rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools
  and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Clever, Lying, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

  Ovid

  Left Behind, Behinds, Dies

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• Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Garden, Compassion

  "Hyakujō: The Everest of Zen with Bashō's Haikus". Book by Osho, 1989.

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• Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Girl, Queens, Women

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

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• France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Light, Blood

  1886 'Locksley Hall Sixty Years After', l.89-90.

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• She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Dancing, Red

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Nightingale and the Rose”, p.3, Booklassic

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• He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Night, Men, Sky

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• The rose saith in the dewy morn,
  I am most fair;
  Yet all my loveliness is born
  Upon a thorn.

  Christina Rossetti

  Born, Fairs, Loveliness

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• I watched a rose-bud very long
  Brought on by dew and sun and shower,
  Waiting to see the perfect flower:
  Then when I thought it should be strong
  It opened at the matin hour
  And fell at even-song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Strong, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.1677, Delphi Classics

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• What is pink? A rose is pink
  By the fountain's brink.

  Christina Rossetti

  Fountain

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.202, OUP Oxford

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• Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Laughing, Red, Lips

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• It's a big deal about whether or not gays can march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and I have to say that on some level I kind of see their point. Because when you think about it, it is a real macho heterosexual event. Bunch of guys in short skirts on a cart made of rose pedals sharing a bag pipe. That's not for sissies.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Real, Gay, Thinking

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• I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Spring, Flower

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• By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Strength, Heart, Fate

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• Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;
  Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,
  Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Women, Angel

  William Shakespeare, George Richard Hibbard (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.204, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

  Carl Honore

  Europe, Cities, Smell

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• If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

  Martin Jacques

  Sports, Cheating, Shining

  "Ubiquitous cheating means sport has no level playing field" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance.

  Aya Kito

  Morning, Thinking, White

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• No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

  Kate Reardon

  Class, Proud, Matter

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• A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Real, Ideas, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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