Bed Of Roses Quotes

• 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

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

  Hank Aaron

  Way, Ifs

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

  Yoko Ono

  Widows, Bears, Life Is

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Mistake, Real

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• The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  Lana Turner

  Grateful, Thinking, Creative

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

  Hank Aaron

  Rose, Bed

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• Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Disappointment, Moving

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• Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

  Hank Aaron

  Wisdom, Failure, Way

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• And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

  Marie Antoinette

  Love, Flower, Thee

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  Yoko Ono

  Stars, Worst Situation, People

  "Yoko Ono, a Decade After the 'Horrible Thing' : John Lennon's widow still lives under a shadow, but, she says, 'It's not a bad time'". Interview with Glenn Plaskin, articles.latimes.com. May 06, 1990.

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• Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Battle, Fields

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• I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!

  John Pawson

  Heaven, Dying, Thorns

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• Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

  Tim Lebbon

  Growing Up, Doors, Miracle

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• When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there is no frustration in your life, life really becomes a bed of roses. Then God is a constant blessing; he goes on raining his grace, his beauty on you.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Rain, Blessing

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• Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Sleep, Thorns

  Francis Quarles (1859). “Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author”, p.23

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• Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mistake, People, Alcohol

  "Discouragement - A power" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

  Henry Miller

  Dog, Travel, Cat

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• A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

  Fidel Castro

  Rose, Bed, Revolution

  Fidel Castro's remarks in 1959, as quoted in "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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• Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Wise, Promise, Golden

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.74, Aum Publications

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• The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

  James K. Polk

  Rose, Bed, Presidency

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• With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

  James K. Polk

  Presidential, Presidency, Rose

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• The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thorns, Politician, Found

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

  John Heywood

  Weed, Spring, Eye

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• I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.

  LeBron James

  Athlete, Thinking, Guy

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