Rose Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

  George Sandys

  Lips, Dropping

  George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349

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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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• The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

  Pete Rose

  Book, Years, Stories

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Real, Thinking, Mind

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• Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.

  Sukarno

  Fragrance, Spread

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• I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

  Kangin

  Hurt, Looks, Thorns

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• You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

  Anton Newcombe

  Gun, People, Black

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• The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

  William Blake

  Humble, Sheep, White

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.84, eBookIt.com

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• Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Heart, Ashes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.503

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• Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Love Is, White

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

  James Joyce

  Wind, Desire, Blast

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

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• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Flower, Glowing

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sweet, Garden, White

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.28

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• Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

  Amy Lowell

  Joy, Opening

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Lilies, May, Good Husband

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• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
  As the flames rose to her Roman nose
  And her Walkman started to melt...

  Steven Morrissey

  Flames, Noses, Arcs

  "Song: 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'". 1986.

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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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• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Spring, Lying, Home

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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• 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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