Rose Quotes

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

Single, Friend, Garden

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, After, Once

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Nature, Today, Human

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Sweet, Call, Name

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Breathing, Sweets

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
Mitt Romney

Morning, Mom, Dad

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius

Future, Past, Changing

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

Snow, Together, Happen

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett

Depression, Two, President

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Evil, Confidence

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Important, Real

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
Ray Evans

Rain, True, Sun

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty, Simple, Nothing

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Woman, Young, Idiot

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love, Leave, Thou

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi

Together, Sorrow, Thorn

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Waiting, Down, Grand

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Sitting Bull

Men, Today, Battle

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright

Life, Love, Women

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller

Love, Trying, Remember

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Jennifer Lopez

Love, Birthday, Time

And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de Sade

Different, Spring, Same

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
Clive Bell

Work, Art, Mind

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes

Enjoy, Accept, Thorns

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
Hedy Lamarr

Hope, She, Promise

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

Work, Father, Him

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
Katharine Lee Bates

Love, Sweet, Planted

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