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Quotes About Rose

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
~ Ovid
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun.
~ Monty Don
Potterism is worst of all in America, that great home of commerce, success and the booming of the second rate.
~ Rose Macaulay
This love is the rose that blooms forever.
~ Rumi
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
~ Rumi
She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.
~ Rupert Thomson
When the whistling-thrush released A deep sweet secret on the trembling air; Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows, Black rose in the long ago summer, This was your song: It isn't time that's passing by, It is you and I.
~ Ruskin Bond
Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!
~ Russell T. Davies
Rose had never been one to fantasize about guys and romance … but she couldn't help her thoughts as she watched her delicious mentor sleep, his handsome face appearing younger in rest. She couldn't help but imagine that her future on the run might not be so desolate if she had someone who excited her by her side.
~ S. Young
She was a French rose growing wild amid the hothouse flowers of London.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
What restless woman can resist a man with a shovel in one hand and a glowing rose bush in the other, and a moderately crazed glitter in his eyes that might be mistaken for love?
~ Margaret Atwood
First, there's the rose— the queen of the flowers; she's so beautiful and her fragrance is so intoxicating that it goes to everyone's head, most of all her own. The rose is beautiful, sweet-smelling and elegant, but if things aren't going her way, she shows her thorns. She's like a spoiled child—beautiful, elegant and seemingly nice as can be, but if you touch her or talk to someone else so that she's no longer the center of attention, out come her claws.
~ Anne Frank
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
~ Anne Rice
Think of it, Armand," I pressed carefully. "Why should Death lurk in the shadows? Why should Death wait at the gate? There is no bedchamber, no ballroom that I cannot enter. Death in the glow of the hearth, Death on tiptoe in the corridor, that is what I am. Speak to me of the Dark Gifts—I use them. I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
~ Anne Rice
Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk about the Leary men.
~ Anne Tyler
Sea rose canes bear thorns, just like their hybrid sisters
~ Sharon Lee
Then know that I'll be laughing at your ineptitude every time your enemies strike you, and if you fail to return with my daughter, I'll have your heart and your head for decorations. (Zephyra) Your words are noted, my most prickly rose. And I shall endeavor to keep your amusement at a bare minimum. (Stryker)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn "Every rose has its thorn?" Jo "Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.
~ Derrick Rose
If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.
~ Frederick Lenz
At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then-she only loved the rose; And then-herself alone; and then- She knew not what, but now-she knows.
~ Ridgely Torrence
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
~ Rose Kennedy
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
More delicious aromas rose. He sprinkled in a
~ John Flanagan