Rose Garden Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Sweet, Rose, Lovely

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Life, Flower, Garden

  To a young lady; attributed

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• Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Memories, Garden

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• I never promised you a rose garden.

  Traian Basescu

  Garden, Rose, Ordinary People

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• In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

  Rumi

  Passion, Kissing, Garden

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

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• Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

  Rumi

  Heart, Garden, Rose

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

  Lynn Anderson

  Relationship, Rain, Sunshine

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• If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

  Rumi

  Garden, Fire, Rose

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

  Lily Allen

  Beautiful, Garden, Rose

  "Does Lily Allen's new website take digs at Cheryl Cole, Beyoncé and Perez Hilton?" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2014.

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• Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

  Rumi

  Garden, Rose, Vision

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• 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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• Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

  Jack Canfield

  Art, Passion, Garden

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• The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

  Joanne Greenberg

  Lying, Garden, Perfection

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.108, Macmillan

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

  Dick Gregory

  School, College, Garden

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

  Toots Thielemans

  Garden, Rose, Musician

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• Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
  Queen rose so fair and sweet.
  What were lover or crown to thee,
  without the clay at thy feet?

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Beautiful, Sweet, Queens

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• 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

  Hate, Cutting, Garden

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