Rose Quotes - Page 2

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed.

I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

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.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

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.

My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my 'thorn;' I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my 'thorn.' Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbow.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

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

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.