One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
I never promised you a rose garden.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.
Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.
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