Rosemary Quotes

• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Hamlet And Ophelia, Herbs

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet”, p.350

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• I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wall, Garden, Hands

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

  Thomas More

  Running, Wall, Garden

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• There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Long, Remembrance

  William Shakespeare (2009). “The Late Romances”, p.528, Bantam Classics

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Sunday

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

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• There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

  Alice Hoffman

  Falling In Love, Garden, Rose

  Alice Hoffman (1996). “Practical magic”, Berkley

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• I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

  Agnes Varda

  Coffee, People, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Winter, Italian, Garden

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I like to take mustard baths. I combine 4 lbs Epsom salts, 3 oz mustard powder, 12 oz powdered milk, and 1/2 cup baking soda, add in 12 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils, then whisk it and pour 1/4 cup of the mix into the tub while warm water is running.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Running, Essential Oils, Water

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• She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sweet, Real, Flower

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• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

  George Clooney

  Motivational, Dad, Aunt

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

  Agnes Varda

  Water, Hot, Herbs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.

  Leo Lionni

  Exercise, Reality, Garden

  Leo Lionni (1977). “Parallel botany”, Random House Inc

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• I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Taken, Responsibility, Long

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• Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Herbs, Praying

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [174]

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• He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Parks, Quiet

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• Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Struggle, Nurse

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Tender is the Night”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.

  Oren Peli

  Baby, Thinking, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it.

  Brian Henson

  Song, Singing, Blonde

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Smell, Comforting, Skins

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• She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Laughter, Moving

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• I've always been a huge fan of 'The Shining,' and 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite films of all time.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Baby, Shining, Fans

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• It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.

  Abbi Glines

  Drinking, Heart, House

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir.

  Kevin Hearne

  Snow, Tonight, Flesh

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.806, Del Rey

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