Rose Quotes

• No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Rose
  • Thorn

• The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • World
  • Past
  • Fall

• Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

  

  Nathalia Crane
  • Death
  • Rose
  • Tomb

• Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Years
  • Lasts

• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Age
  • Green
  • Flower

• Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Life
  • Love
  • Flower

• I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I think the British with Brexit, then the Americans with the election of Donald Trump, did that: They made possible the impossible.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Trump
  • Blue
  • Rose

• Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Modest
  • Thrown
  • Veils

• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  

  Clive Bell
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

  

  William Watson
  • Song
  • Light
  • Eye

• I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Blue
  • Rose
  • Window

• Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Garden
  • Flower
  • Lake

• The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Rose
  • Theory
  • Apple

• I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Flower
  • Rhyme

• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • Bread
  • Workers
  • Ballots

• I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

  

  James Dobson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Okay, well, let's do a little reenactment. I'm the gay-looking DiCaprio and you're Rose. You have to keep your eyes open and on my face, or you'll have to let me go and I'll turn into a huge gay Popsicle.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Gay

• Water were your limbsAnd the fire was your hairAnd then the moon caught your eye,and you rose through the air.Well if you've seen true light,then this is my prayer:Will you call meWhen you get there?

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • True
  • Light
  • Water

• It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Important
  • Rose
  • Wasted Time

• I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Long
  • Art
  • Death

• Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Singing

• She's like snow in Russian. Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that the rose.

  

  Eva Ibbotson
  • Rose
  • Snow
  • Scent

• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Bird
  • Sorrow
  • Beloved

• As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.

  

  John Keats
  • Rose

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