Rose Quotes - Page 24

• Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

  Philip James Bailey

  Lips, Music Life, Nightingales

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.254

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• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

  Johnny Mercer

  Running, Children, Wine

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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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• 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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• 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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• The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

  Louis Aragon

  Evil, Born

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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• Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

  Tanith Lee

  Wine, Rivers, Dawn

  Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”

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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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• 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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• A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Thinking, Risk

  David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.

  Marianne Williamson

  Psychics, Games, Challenges

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

  Alan Keyes

  Selfish, People, Promise

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the DuPage County Republican Central Committee's Party for the President, www.keyesarchives.com. September 2, 2004.

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• Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Unification Church, Suffering, Pits

  "The Way Of God's Will". Book by Sun Myung Moon, translated, 1980.

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• The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Lilies, May, Good Husband

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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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• In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

  Francis Turner Palgrave

  Autumn, Wild Roses, Hands

  Francis Turner Palgrave (1871). “Lyrical Poems”, p.75

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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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• I don't believe in reincarnation because there's an expert on this question, and he's Jesus of Nazareth. He's the only person in history who died, rose from the dead, and spoke authoritatively on this question. And Jesus says reincarnation doesn't happen. He says that there's only one death and after that comes the judgment.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Believe, Experts

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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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• 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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• 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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• Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

  Josh Lieb

  Beach, Real, Coffee

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.157, Penguin

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• Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Son, Intellectual, Revolution

  "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and ‎Marina Ottaway, 1978.

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