A Rose Quotes

But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.
- Larry Mcmurtry

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.
- Julia Quinn

Her greatest wish I should think was that I would remain exactly as I was, and how I regret that that was not to be. It was only for her roses that she wished for change, the strange moment of loral enchantment when the branch of a rose mutates, and shows a "sport," something new arising from the known rose. A leap in beauty.
- Sebastian Barry

I never promised you a rose garden.
- Traian Basescu

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
- Katharine Lee Bates

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
- Brandi L Bates

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
- Melody Beattie

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew... Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
- Desmond Tutu

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

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
- Clive Bell

But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.
- L M Montgomery

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
- L M Montgomery

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

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.
- Dewitt Bodeen

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
- Ray Bradbury

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
- Salvador Dali

You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.
- Robert Frost

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

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow
- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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.
- Jack Canfield

You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.
- Wendi Cassel

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
- Bertrand Russell

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
- Terry Pratchett

The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.
- Donna Woolfolk Cross

i shall imagine life
is not worth dying,if
(and when)roses complain
their beauties are in vain
but though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose,roses(you feel
certain)will only smile
- E E Cummings

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
- Virginia Woolf

...sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.
- Suzannah Daniels

Samuel became even more interested in politics than his father had been, served the Republican Party tirelessly as a king-maker, caused that party to nominate men who would whirl like dervishes, bawl fluent Babylonian, and order the militia to fire into crowds whenever a poor man seemed on the point of suggesting that he and a Rosewater were equal in the eyes of the law.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still.
- Charles Dickens

Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.
- Jennifer Donnelly

What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
- Jon English

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
- Ray Evans

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
- Alex Flinn

As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.
- Andrew Sean Greer

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life....little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
- Philippa Gregory

Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.
- Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
- Isaac Hayes

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
- Alexander Henry

what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
- Alice Hoffman

WITH rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping 5
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
- A E Housman

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

this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as innocent as the heart of a rose.
- Elspeth Huxley

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.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
- Muhammad Iqbal

every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns
- Billy Joel

Of all the flowers from a rose to a carnation, I'd die for reincarnation.
- Jarod Kintz

She felt just like that girl in that book with the
letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She
was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an
outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have
been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only
knew the thorny side.
- Victoria Kahler

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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness.
- Miranda Kerr

A rose by any other name
Would get the blame
For being what it is--
The colour of a kiss,
The shadow of a flame.
A rose may earn another name,
So call it love;
So call it love I will,
And love is like the sea,
Which changes constantly,
And yet is still
The same.
- Tanith Lee

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
- Henri Matisse

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- W Somerset Maugham

I would blossom if I were a rose.
- Edna St Vincent Millay

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
- Arthur Miller

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower
- Sarah Monette

Life Is, a Rose.
- Ana Monnar

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.
- Christopher Moore

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
- Bernadette Peters

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.
- Mary Bray Pipher

She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.
- Ruth Rendell

You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.
- Sylvain Reynard

I flush,and my inner goddess grabs a rose between her teeth and starts to tango.
- James E Rogers

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
- Mitt Romney

Brother, stand the pain.
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.
Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun.
Turn away from the cave of your sleeping.
That way a thorn expands to a rose.
- Rumi

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey...
Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul...
Love says, You are right,
but don't claim these changes.
Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.
- Rumi

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how
- Tupac Shakur

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?
- Tupac Shakur

I snipped off the stem and took a knee.
"For you, my love. A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet as your feet."
Jules smacked me on the back of the head.
- B Justin Shier

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
- Zadie Smith

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
- Robert Southey

It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.
- Rebecca Stead

a rose is a rose is a rose
- Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
- Gertrude Stein

A rose is a rose is a rose.
- Gertrude Stein

A girl of sixteen had a complexion like a rose, and she put on rouge.
- Stendhal

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
- Toots Thielemans

She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.
- Rupert Thomson

She could have taken root. She wanted to be a Rose, somebody's Rose, their Roseand she would have been company for the flowers. She had new memories to give them, new people to tell them of, people who would help tend to them and keep them. But they warned her. They saved her.
Hazel was nobody's Rose. For better or for worse.
- Anne Ursu

Must you know that yours will be the "better" picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty?
Must a rose be "better" than an iris in order to justify it's existence?
I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.
- Neale Donald Walsch

They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.
- T H White

Well, I didn't need them.
I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose.
I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.
- Jacqueline Wilson

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
- P G Wodehouse

Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do
not just from the rose's point of view.
But it's a start
like driving off a cliff's probably a finish.
In beween you'll probably want to go to Mexico,
get so drunk you think what you're doing is a dance.
- Dean Young