Rose Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

  Alan Bennett

  Sight, Virginia, Finding Yourself

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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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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• 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 know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

  Dannie Abse

  Healing, Lovely, Grass

  'Pathology of Colours' (1968)

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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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• 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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• 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 grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Jesus, Thinking, Wife

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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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• The rose is often found near the nettle.

  Ovid

  Found, Nettles

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• I like BBC news, I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

  Brian Grazer

  News, London, Charlie

  "Brian Grazer On “Frost/Nixon,” Bush’s Damage, His Hair And More". Interview with Katherine Thomson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2009.

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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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• I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Gun, Rocks, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Mistake, Twilight, Sight

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press

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• In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
  Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
  TO gods and men.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Men

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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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• 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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• Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
  At cards for kisses - Cupid paid:
  He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
  His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
  Loses them too; then down he throws
  The coral of his lips, the rose
  Growing one's cheek (but none knows how);
  With these, the crystal of his brow,
  And then the dimple of his chin:
  All these did my Campaspe win.
  At last he set her both his eyes -
  She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
  O Love! has she done this for thee?
  What shall, alas! become of me?

  John Lyly

  Love, Mother, Team

  John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”

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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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• And the guelder rose
  In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
  Her wealth about her feet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Feet, Wealth, Stillness

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.124

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