roses

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
9ce1b38	It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.	inspirational love roses time caring	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
94a5176	You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.	inspirational love roses uniqueness caring	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
94df90e	She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...	love roses	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
dc71b30	For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?	importance longing love protection roses sheep stars thorns uniqueness war	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
67a1bac	I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.	memory roses	L.M. Montgomery
b02dcb9	"What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."	flowers goodness hope nature providence reason religion roses	Arthur Conan Doyle
86edfbe	Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said:	dark light magic reassurance roses shadows	Robin McKinley
affbfa1	"That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said."	roses sylvia-plath the-bell-jar	Sylvia Plath
1a449e8	Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?	companionship constancy friendship love roses	Emily Brontë
a3e5b0d	Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-	death fitzgerald happiness rose roses sadness	F Scott Fitzgerald
6abbf67	"Princess," he whispered against her ear. "My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you."	roses sabrina teresa-medeiros whisper	Teresa Medeiros
6ff995b	I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses	roses	James Joyce
e484d22	This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.	classic-poems classic-quotes compassion faith grief healing-grief hope infinity inspiration inspiration-for-the-soul inspirational-quotes newtown-connecticut palaces pearls pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter rebirth recovery recovery-from-grief resurrection roses savannah-authors-and-poets sorrow spiritual-transformation spirituality survival transformation	Aberjhani
04d7b68	"Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear."	flowers roses sardonic trash	Virginia Woolf
256ef30	"The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. "It just struck me - clear and complete all at once - no long figuring about it." He realized that children could be designed. "And I thought to myself, now that would a rose garden worthy of a man's interest." We children would smile and hug him and he would grin around at us and send the twins for a pot of cocoa from the drink wagon and me for a bag of popcorn because the red-haired girls would just throw it out when they finished closing the concession anyway. And we would all be cozy in the warm booth of the van, eating popcorn and drinking cocoa and feeling like Papa's roses."	design roses	Katherine Dunn
5bafcd1	Lords of melody and song, Lords of roses burning bright, Blue will right the ancient wrong, Though the way is dark and long, Blue will shine with loving light.	melody right roses song wrong	Madeleine L'Engle
254de6d	Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.	mushrooms roses	Margaret Atwood
1ef95ff	Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!	gothic petals-on-the-wind premonition roses vc-andrews wind	V.C. Andrews
e12e019	The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden to scarlet and deep pink on tiers below. At the bottom, in the center of the rosy congregation, the palest apricots and ivories perfumed the air.	perfumes roses	Allegra Goodman
fc03ba0	The rich smell of the rose was almost visible; I fancied it lent a rosy edge to the shadows cast by the firelight.	roses scents	Robin McKinley
73b49bb	I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and on the other side, fat lavender roses on a purple background. Which side to use? An optical-illusion namesake with which I could dry our dishes. It was soft and worn and smelled like no-nonsense laundry detergent.	dish-towel lavender optical-illusion purple rose-edelstein roses two-toned	Aimee Bender

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

94a5176

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

inspirational love roses uniqueness caring

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

94df90e

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

love roses

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

dc71b30

For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

importance longing love protection roses sheep stars thorns uniqueness war

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

67a1bac

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

memory roses

L.M. Montgomery

b02dcb9

"What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

flowers goodness hope nature providence reason religion roses

Arthur Conan Doyle

86edfbe

Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said:

dark light magic reassurance roses shadows

Robin McKinley

affbfa1

"That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said."

roses sylvia-plath the-bell-jar

Sylvia Plath

1a449e8

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

companionship constancy friendship love roses

Emily Brontë

a3e5b0d

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

death fitzgerald happiness rose roses sadness

F Scott Fitzgerald

6abbf67

"Princess," he whispered against her ear. "My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you."

roses sabrina teresa-medeiros whisper

Teresa Medeiros

6ff995b

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

roses

James Joyce

e484d22

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

classic-poems classic-quotes compassion faith grief healing-grief hope infinity inspiration inspiration-for-the-soul inspirational-quotes newtown-connecticut palaces pearls pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter rebirth recovery recovery-from-grief resurrection roses savannah-authors-and-poets sorrow spiritual-transformation spirituality survival transformation

Aberjhani

04d7b68

"Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear."

flowers roses sardonic trash

Virginia Woolf

256ef30

"The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. "It just struck me - clear and complete all at once - no long figuring about it." He realized that children could be designed. "And I thought to myself, now that would a rose garden worthy of a man's interest." We children would smile and hug him and he would grin around at us and send the twins for a pot of cocoa from the drink wagon and me for a bag of popcorn because the red-haired girls would just throw it out when they finished closing the concession anyway. And we would all be cozy in the warm booth of the van, eating popcorn and drinking cocoa and feeling like Papa's roses."

design roses

Katherine Dunn

5bafcd1

Lords of melody and song, Lords of roses burning bright, Blue will right the ancient wrong, Though the way is dark and long, Blue will shine with loving light.

melody right roses song wrong

Madeleine L'Engle

254de6d

Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.

mushrooms roses

Margaret Atwood

1ef95ff

Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!

gothic petals-on-the-wind premonition roses vc-andrews wind

V.C. Andrews

e12e019

The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden to scarlet and deep pink on tiers below. At the bottom, in the center of the rosy congregation, the palest apricots and ivories perfumed the air.

perfumes roses

Allegra Goodman

fc03ba0

The rich smell of the rose was almost visible; I fancied it lent a rosy edge to the shadows cast by the firelight.

roses scents

Robin McKinley

73b49bb

I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and on the other side, fat lavender roses on a purple background. Which side to use? An optical-illusion namesake with which I could dry our dishes. It was soft and worn and smelled like no-nonsense laundry detergent.

dish-towel lavender optical-illusion purple rose-edelstein roses two-toned

Aimee Bender