Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Alexander Pope

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Dr. Seuss

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Anna Julia Cooper

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...

Angelus Silesius

The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Alphonse Karr

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Mackenzie really rose to the occasion. She bettered her time from (Friday).

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Bret Michaels

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

David Nicholls

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

Abraham Lincoln

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

C. S. Lewis

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Darrell Armstrong

It's not all going to be roses all the time. Right now, we're going through a little something. I've never seen a team that didn't go through something. Some teams find a way to get out of it. Some teams don't. Now it's time for us to get out of it.

Davy Jones

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Nicki Minaj

Now get that Rose, get that get that Rose A little Hennessy & Louis the Thirteenth

Ilka Chase

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Margery Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Julia Quinn

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Juan Williams

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Gilles Marini

Nothing is wrong about giving a rose to someone you like or love.

Gus Van Sant

Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

Kristin Scott Thomas

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

Kim Harrison

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

Jay Chiat

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

Jane Porter

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.