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Quotes About Roses

Roses are red, love; violets are blue. Birds in the heavens know I love you.
~ Suzanne Collins
Y qué va a hacer por mí mi mentor, aparte de regalarme rosas? ?Haré todo lo posible por cuidar de ti.
~ Suzanne Collins
I feel the sickening impact of the skull against my shoe. The scent of blood and roses stings my nose.
~ Suzanne Collins
Roses," Georgiana repeated, her thoughtful gaze touching his. "It's about time one of the Carroway men decided to cultivate something other than their poor reputations.
~ Suzanne Enoch
People have asked me what it was like to be on that stage, where I had lived so many lives, knowing it was the last time. Did my whole career pass through my mind in a flash? No, it didn't. It was not a memorial, it was a celebration. I felt like Cinderella at the ball, and I had been there all my life. It was roses without thorns.
~ Suzanne Farrell
Car je ne puis trouver parmi ces pâles roses Une fleur qui ressemble à mon rouge idéal.
~ Charles Baudelaire
i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
~ Charles Bukowski
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
~ Charles Bukowski
meat is cut as roses are cut men die as dogs die love dies like dogs die, he said.
~ Charles Bukowski
Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer
~ Charles Bukowski
The priest read his thing. I didn't listen. There was the coffin. What had been Betty was in there. It was very hot. The sun came down in one yellow sheet. A fly circled around. Halfway through the halfway funeral two guys in working clothes came carrying my wreath. The roses were dead, dead and dying in the heat, and they leaned the thing up against a nearby tree. Near the end of the service my wreath leaned forward and fell flat on its face. Nobody picked it up. Then it was over.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
~ Charles Bukowski
roses are red, violets are blue. a clown killed a boy, and ate him up too.
~ Tim Burton
Foxglove grows waist high around the gazebo, and roses, which all the time hate our soil, rage here, with more thorns than blackberries and weeks of beet red blossoms. The wood siding of the hotel looks silver-plated, its peeling paint like the streaks on an unpolished tea service.
~ Toni Morrison
Meet me tonight in Dreamland Where love's sweet roses bloom Come with the lovelight gleaming In your dear eyes of blue Meet me in Dreamland Sweet dreamy Dreamland There let my dreams come true They
~ Kevin Baker
The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.
~ Knut Hamsun
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,A box where sweets compacted lie.
~ George Herbert
But any great happiness is a bright light, a challenge to fate to do its worst. There must not be people who are too happy. They would discourage all the rest, to whom life grants nothing more than unexceptional moments, intermittent joys, roses that have to be watered with tears.
~ Georges Rodenbach
Roses dropped petals that seemed as big and smooth as saucers, flame red, moon and white, glossy, and unwrinkled.
~ Gerald Durrell
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
~ James M. Barrie
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
~ Jack Kerouac
If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.
~ Swedish Proverb
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
~ Alan Keyes