The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose. – Robert Frost The Rose Family
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. – Saint Therese of Lisieux
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down. – Rumi Masnavi I Ma’navi, Book III, Story XIV. Translated by Edward Henry Whinfield.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of roses will hang round it still. – Thomas Moore Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome the Hour, Irish Melodies.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses, Dewy as the morning and coloured like the dawn; Little tents of odour, where the bee reposes, Swooning in sweetness of the bed he dreams upon. – Thomas Buchanan Read The New Pastoral, Book VII, line 51.
And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies. – Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart. – Rumi
O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour, which doth in it live. – William Shakespeare Sonnet 54
From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. – William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4. Spoken by Plantagenet.
I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the ‘gay marriage float’ in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. – James Dobson
Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement. – Jack Keane
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. – Ignatius of Antioch
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside. – James Stephens
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. – Isaac D’Israeli
In Rose Gather the Rose of Love whilst yet is time. – Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene, Canto XII, Stanza 75.
What I learned most from my father wasn’t anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it. – Jeff Bridges
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower That ever drank the amber shower; Rose! thou art the fondest child Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild. – Thomas Moore Odes of Anacreon. Ode XLIV.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. – Henri Matisse
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter. – Alice Morse Earle
I hate roses. Don’t you? It’s all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. – Cy Twombly
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company’s profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company. – Alex Berenson
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season. – Bo Schembechler
The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild – five names taken at random from among the R’s – told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains. – Bruce Chatwin
In Beautiful 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 Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi. Translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski. Mathnawi III, 4129.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. – Robert Herrick To the Virgins to Make Much of Time