Quotes of: Rose Keyword

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Anne Bronte

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Bryan Clay

Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.

Warren Moon

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

Angela Ruggiero

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Toots Thielemans

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.

Winston S. Churchill

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

Julie Harris

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Rose Schneiderman

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds an...

Dealing with Dragons

Have you ever felt as if your dreams were more memorable, more alive, than what you knew to be reality? Have your dreams ever seemed so tangible as to make you question upon waking if you’d truly only dreamt them? Have they at times been addictive ...

Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

They sat on the outcropping of stone and at bread and fruit. Kasta watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place than another. It rose and fell again. It flowed, like water. "Is this what the sea i...

Graceling

Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spanish shawl on your shoulders, A red rose in your hair. "Beauty is simple," they will tell you — Clumsily with a motley shawl You will cover a child up, A red rose on the fl...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will ...

Tropic of Cancer

Rose: My mum's here. The Doctor: Oh, that's just what I need! Don't you dare make this place domestic! Mickey Smith: You ruined my life, Doctor. [the Doctor turns and looks at him, irritated] They thought she was dead, I was a murder suspect because ...

Russell T. Davies

Mom, mom, mom, mom! A yowl rose from my gut, my bowels, my womb, raw as a birth cry but with no hope in it, a maddening howl, a roar, the water a wailing wall shattering around me. Unsyllabled, thoughtless, the cry rose from the oldest cells in my bo...

Lorna Crozier

[last lines] Theater Manager: Cecilia, what are you doing here? Cecilia: Meeting Gil Shepherd. Theater Manager: They all gone. Cecilia: Th - whaddaya, whaddaya mean? Theater Manager: They went back to Hollywood. Cecilia: Gil too? Theater Manager: Mr ...

The Purple Rose of Cairo

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Only a rose would make a man turn the shade of his desire.

Darkness

And warns us to use life’s beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.

Fasti

Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

Her Unwelcome Inheritance