Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?

Rose Schneiderman

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too,

Rick Riordan

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.

William Faulkner

Who gathers the withered rose?

Zadie Smith

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.

Samuel Rutherford

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

Wallace Stevens

How red the rose that is the soldier

Willa Cather

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

Walter Benjamin

You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.

Washington Irving

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

William Butler Yeats

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

William Wordsworth

The budding rose above the rose full blown.

William Morris Hunt

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

Rudolf Steiner

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

Wendy Craig

One rose says more than the dozen.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

Richard M. Nixon

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Robert Caro

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

Sylvia Plath

I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.

Sylvia Plath

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

Sylvia Plath

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.

Rumi

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

Rumi

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

Tom Flynn

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Steve Carlton

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.