Famous Quotes & Sayings

Prince Charles

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ovid

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Madison Smartt Bell

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

Louis Aragon

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.