Rose Quotes - page 5

Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire, To be no one's sleep under so many Lids. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Oh, my Luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June. O, my Luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly played in tune. View quote
Robert Burns
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose. View quote
John Keats
He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; since Eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. View quote
Walter de la Mare
You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose. (Melody Beattie)
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really. View quote
Mary Balogh
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. View quote
Peter Straub
But almost as if presenting the image of some ironic answer, the wings flapped against a sudden, high, unfelt breeze, and the beast, here shorn of all fables, rose and rose-for a while-under the night. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Princess, you could never be that. You are unique to me. (Zarek) Am I your rose? (Astrid) Yes, you are my rose. There is only one of you in all the millions of planets and stars. (Zarek) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
... the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: "It's the ghost! View quote
Gaston Leroux
She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "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]. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. View quote
Kresley Cole
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. View quote
Gregory Maguire
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)
Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance. View quote
Dodie Smith
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. View quote
Cy Twombly
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. View quote
Amy Alcott
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it. View quote
Bernadette Peters