Rosebuds Quotes

• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Girl, Queens, Women

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

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• Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.

  Robert Herrick

  May

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Real

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• Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

  Robert Burns

  Morning, Rose, Dew

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.216

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• To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Death, Heart, Garden

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• Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

  Robert Southey

  Cat, Animal, Garden

  "The Doctor, &c".

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• When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Taken, Feet, Way

  Laurence Sterne (1800). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters to Eliza”, p.92

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• Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Silk

  "Fictional character: Princess Ann". "Roman Holiday", 1953.

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• What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Dew, Common

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody".

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• To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Play, Silence

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• On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Heart, Two

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• The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

  Robert Herrick

  Heaven, Lamps, Rose Buds

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• That age is best which is the first
  When youth and blood are warmer.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Blood, Age

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

  Neil Gaiman

  Valentine, Heart, Watches

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• It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

  Irving Townsend

  Teaching, Cat

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• Then be not coy, but use your time;
  And while ye may, go marry:
  For having lost but once your prime,
  You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Use, May, Rose Buds

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.

  Julianne Hough

  Light, Eyelashes, Trying

  "Five Questions with Julianne Hough". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• Spring still makes spring in the mind
  When sixty years are told:
  Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
  And we are never old
  Over the winter glaciers
  I see the summer glow
  And through the wind-piled snowdrift
  The warm rosebuds below.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Spring, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The World-Soul”

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• You were the best birthday present I ever got." "Thank you." "I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to warn you that it's not half as good as my present. Even so, you have to keep it." "All right." He draped the pink bow around his neck and grinned. "Happy birthday, Rosebud.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Giving, Half, Bows

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• Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
  Your childhood is a bower:
  Let my fingers wander in the moss
  Where glows the rosebud
  Let me among the clean grasses
  Drink the drops of dew
  Which sprinkle the tender flower

  Paul Verlaine

  Flower, June, Childhood

  Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”

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• You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

  Henry James

  Men, Light, Blue

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.275, e-artnow

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