Rose Quotes - Page 38

• Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

  Robert Greene

  Flower, Wind, Purple

  Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson (188?). “The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson”

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• ...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
  Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
  Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
  Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

  Nas

  Rap, Blow, Clothes

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• I will send a shower of roses.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Showers

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• Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

  Theodore Parker

  Flower, Hands, Years

  Theodore Parker (1871). “The Collected Works of ... P. ...”

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• Had it lived long, is would have been
  Lilies without, roses within.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Long, Lilies

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• She bathed with roses red,
  And violets blew.
  And all the sweetest flowres
  That in the forrest grew.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Red, Violet

  Edmund Spenser (2003). “The Faerie Queene”, p.704, Penguin UK

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• Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
  On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
  But on thy turf shall roses rear
  Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

  Lord Byron

  Flower, Years, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Crazy

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• Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
  Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
  Only to meet again more close.

  John Keats

  Flower, Air, Zephyr

  John Keats (2011). “John Keats”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• By cool Siloam's shady rill
  How sweet the lily grows!
  How sweet the breath beneath the hill
  Of Sharon's dewy rose!

  Richard Heber

  Sweet, Flower, Lilies

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• It was roses, roses, all the way,
  With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Mad, Myrtle

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.216, Pearson Education

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• Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Bud, Stills

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 1, l. 476

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• The bride hath paced into the hall,
  Red as a rose is she.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Flower, Red, Brides

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). “Sibylline leaves: a collection of poems”, p.5

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• My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.

  Fiona Apple

  Fall, Heart, Moon

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• Oh, this is the joy of the rose;
  That it blows,
  And goes.

  Willa Cather

  Flower, Blow, Joy

  Willa Cather (1990). “April Twilights (1903): Poems”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Air, Fields

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• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
  Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Flower, Summer Nights

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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• He wears the rose
  Of youth upon him.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Flower, Youth

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 20

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• A Primrose by a river's brim
  A yellow primrose was to him
  And it was something more.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Rivers, Yellow

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• The Rainbow comes and goes,
  And lovely is the Rose.

  William Wordsworth

  Appreciation, Flower, Rainbow

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

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• The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

  Aberjhani

  Flower, Bridges, Agony

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Blue, Feet

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.82, Arcade Publishing

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• I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Soccer, Team, Eye

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

  Joseph Simmons

  Beautiful, Sweet, Positivity

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• About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.

  Joshua Slocum

  Loneliness, Fog, Wind

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

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