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Quotes About Roses

Well, says Uncle Enzo. It is the well that begins the end of a conversation. I was going to send you some roses, but you wouldn't really be interested in that, would you?
~ Neal Stephenson
They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses? I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance. She smiled. So you send lots of women roses? Millions. I have a lot of fans. Dive instructors are almost like movie stars, you know. They are, huh? You mean you didn't know? And here I thought you were just another groupie.
~ Nicholas Sparks
They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses? I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance. a
~ Nicholas Sparks
Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
~ Hayley Mills
God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. —JAMES M. BARRIE
~ Kristin Hannah
White sheets flapped in the breeze and roses tumbled like laughter along the ancient stone wall that hid her property from the road.
~ Kristin Hannah
Everywhere she looked, she saw the rewards of her careful planning and judicious pruning. The beds were a riot of glorious color, with sugary pink saucer-sized roses, ruffled yellow peonies, spiked purple delphinium. The deep green English boxwood she'd taken such time with was well on its way to becoming the bones of the garden.
~ Kristin Hannah
They blossom ever where you tread... Wild roses bloody red.
~ L.J. Smith
Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty...
~ Cate Tiernan
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn't; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink insists; red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.
~ Cathleen Schine
The wild Roses run up to great heights in hedge and thicket, and never look so well as when among the tangles of mixed growth of wild forest land or clambering through some old gnarled thorn-tree.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line.
~ Gloria Lemay
Estas rosas que trajeron las manos de unas penitentes llenas de amor, nos ayudaron en nuestra victoria y a completar la sagrada labor de ganar el tesoro que es esta alma.
~ Goethe
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?' 'I must admit that I do not.' 'There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing better to induce good cheer in a woman than a fine constitutional beating.
~ Jack Vance
Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses, Even the birds chatter at dawn.
~ Scott Hastie
Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
~ Walter de La Mare
I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.
~ Barbara La Marr
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!"
~ Edward Lear