Rose Quotes - Page 9

• Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

  Amy Lowell

  Joy, Opening

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Heathers

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

  George Ade

  Sweet, Winter, Names

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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• If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

  Alan Bennett

  Sight, Virginia, Finding Yourself

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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• The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Lilies, May, Good Husband

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• See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

  Andrew Marvell

  Self, Dew, Elements

  c.1650-1652 'On a Drop of Dew' (published 1681).

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• Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.

  Sukarno

  Fragrance, Spread

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• Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

  Philip James Bailey

  Lips, Music Life, Nightingales

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.254

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• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

  Johnny Mercer

  Running, Children, Wine

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• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Spring, Lying, Home

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Flower, Eagles

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.18, Souvenir Press

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Wall, Kissing, Winter

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• The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

  Pete Rose

  Book, Years, Stories

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• You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.

  Walter Benjamin

  Path, Cannabis

  Walter Benjamin (2006). “On Hashish”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

  Louis Aragon

  Evil, Born

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• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Inspiration, Player, Champion

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Weed, Nature, Stars

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 427, 1895.

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• Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

  Tanith Lee

  Wine, Rivers, Dawn

  Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”

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• I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

  Gerald Massey

  Freedom, Ocean, Heart

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.26

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• Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

  Rocky Marciano

  Boxing, Garbage, Dump

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• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
  As the flames rose to her Roman nose
  And her Walkman started to melt...

  Steven Morrissey

  Flames, Noses, Arcs

  "Song: 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'". 1986.

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• When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  Christina Aguilera

  Rain, Butterfly, Names

  Song: Too Beautiful For Words

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