Rose Quotes - Page 21

• The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

  Dorothy Dix

  Life, Gratitude, Cheer

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• Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Community

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• There was a knight came riding by
  In early spring, when the roads were dry;
  And he heard that lady sing at the noon,
  Two red roses across the moon.

  William Morris

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.2676, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

  Petronius

  Men, Thorns, Please

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• Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

  Adam Johnson

  Life, Flower, Faces

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.252, Random House

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• He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Stars, Dark

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• One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

  James Thurber

  Loss, Men, Imagination

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Weed, Grows, Mansions

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

  Rumi

  May, Feels, Nightingales

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• Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Wise, Bed Of Roses, Promise

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.74, Aum Publications

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• We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand.

  Omar Khayyam

  Thinking, Smell, Giving

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• A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Color, Should Have

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• Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Doubt, Johnson, Courses

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.17, Best Books on

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• Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

  Johnny Carson

  Dancer, President, Dinner

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• It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Real, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

  Jim Carrey

  Love Is, Our Love, Littles

  "Fictional character: The Mask". "The Mask", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• And don't put a rose in my hand. Put a slim-jim in it. Send me to heaven with a slim-jim!

  Bill Engvall

  Hands, Heaven, Slim

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• Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Poet, Donne

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!

  Eartha Kitt

  Daughter, Years, Lasts

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• I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

  Steve Diggle

  Character, Guitar, Sound

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• Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Gun, Iron, Trying

  Interview with Mark Pytlik, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2005.

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• I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

  John Kasich

  Commitment, Garden, Kuwait

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

  Tom Flynn

  Love, Wisdom, Novelists

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• In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.

  Diane Dreher

  Beautiful, Song, Flower

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• In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

  Rumi

  Passion, Kissing, Garden

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

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