Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Nimoy

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

John Keats

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

John Keats

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

John Keats

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

Pete Rose

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

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.

Therese of Lisieux

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Julie Harris

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

Ovid

The rose is often found near the nettle.

Ellen Hopkins

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

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.

Jonah Hill

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Julie Burchill

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Lisa Vanderpump

Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.

Louis Aragon

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

James Montgomery

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Emily Dickinson

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

Henry Van Dyke

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

Dewitt Bodeen

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

Lord Byron

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Charles Francis Richter

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Camille Paglia

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I would blossom if I were a rose.

Charlton Heston

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

Vince Young

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Bret Michaels

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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