Rose quotes
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"Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
"The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows."
"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
"Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!"
"The rose that once has bloomed forever dies."
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"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."
"A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is."
"The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!"
"Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music"
"Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed."
"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again."
"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."
"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."
"No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning."
"Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold."
"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."
"I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent."
"Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!"
"If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire."
"If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter."
"It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad."
"Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships"
"I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!"
"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?'"
"The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food."
