Rose Petals Quotes

• 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

  Birthday, Flower, Rose

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• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Flower, Carpe Diem

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Eye, Light, Rose

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• The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

  Robert Jordan

  Water, Rose, Ponds

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

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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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• Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

  Stephen King

  Wings, Rose, Shadow

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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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• And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sky, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Rose, Scratches

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• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Flower, Night, Rose

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• Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Rose, Mountain

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• In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Children, Wall, Eye

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

  Anne Lamott

  Rose, Ego, Thrill

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.218, Anchor

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• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  Sai Baba

  Beauty, Sky, Water

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• Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

  Stephen King

  Dust, Sky, Rose

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

  Joel Stein

  Wine, Rose, Taste

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• Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cat, Eye, Kissing

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• It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Men, Echoes

  "Cocktail Time". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1958.

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• Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.

  Shirley Jackson

  Horse, Moon, Rose

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  Robert Graves (1972). “Poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.

  T. H. White

  Years, Rivers, Rose

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