Roses Quotations

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

Next to women, roses are the best thing God made. No other flower on earth has the shape, size, form and fragrance all rolled into one neat package.

I have a ticket for Sunday but I'm not going home, I'm going to party. It's going to be a champagne and roses party!

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete!

I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ To be a little wilderness.

I have a lot of faith in my teammates and coaching staff. There are no major moves. We'll find a way. Somehow, someway, things will come up roses for us.

To coincide with Valentine's Day we were making a statement demanding roses and the dignity they stand for and bread in the form of affordable food for everyone.

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

I find that people are wanting to cook more, garden more, but are not sure how to start. They are surprised to see a fresh bay leaf that they don't have to pick out of beef stew. They are really excited to learn that they can cook with the roses in their garden.

I think all this emphasis on sales is misguided. If you look at the Stone Roses or the Jam, you don't think about how many records they sold but what great music they made. That's what is?.

Over the course of our career we've been fortunate enough to share the stage with a select few of the bands we grew up on, admired and respected including AC/DC, Deep Purple, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I think it's safe to say that no one smelled more roses than my dad,

Usually, the limiting factor for roses is water. If the rose is not getting enough water, it will let you know. Bent neck is the common sign that water uptake is not adequate, and the upper stem bends over because it is the weakest part.

Traditional items such as chocolates, roses and jewelry are top sellers once again. Popular this year is also spa gift items and gourmet tea and coffee gift baskets. ConsumerClub.com lets shoppers find all these items and more all in one place. They can also comparison shop to be sure they receive the best items at the best prices.

We're still working on it. We've just been on a mammoth hunt for a singer. Because of the singers the three of us have had in the past, it's sort of a big thing to measure anybody by. As for the music itself, it's a really weird cross between northern soul, reggae, New Order, Stones Roses and the Smiths. The three basses work together on a few tracks, which I was delighted about, because everyone was laughing at us for wanting to do it.

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

Whenever Mr. Johnson sent out flowers of condolence, he asked for red roses more often than not.

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

costing the Guns N' Roses partnership millions of dollars to date.

Every day is a big test, ... It's not going to be a bed of roses for the next number of quarters. But we are making progress. I feel very good about where we are from a leadership standpoint.

As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.

I see trees of green........ red roses tooI see em bloom..... for me and for youAnd I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.I see skies of blue..... clouds of whiteBright blessed days....dark sacred nightsAnd I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the skyAre also on the faces.....of people ..going byI see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you doTheyre really sayin......I love you.

Another Boehme with a tougher book / And subtler meanings of what roses say.

And we're gonna put the pen in the box, and she loved lavender roses so we can put a rose petal in here.

The rose was awake all night for your sake,/ Knowing your promise to me;/ The lilies and roses were all awake,/ They sighed for the dawn and thee.

It would be nice if everything always came up roses in life and you were the Cinderella story all the time, but sometimes you're on the other side of the coin. It's our fate tonight to be in that role.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi prefers smelling roses than removing thorns

We had so much energy the last two days, I couldn't believe we just came off the road trip. I said they're starting to smell the roses ? they feel the end coming here.

Roses are my favorite flower. I developed a passion for them. And in my own garden, I didn't want to be fussing with just roses. I enjoyed other plants as well,

Roses are red, and how do you do? Drink four of these, and Woo woo woo woo!

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

Roses, roses are always a favorite. It's an expression of love, everybody knows what the rose stands for.

One guy said, 'I have a hard time buying my wife roses when it's her money.'

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, / Like a child at play.

A lot of people have a misconception that roses won't last for more than a day or two; but if taken care of correctly, roses should last a week to two weeks. We are more than happy to inform our customers on proper flower care.

Sometimes they are just a gesture of a bush, but still able to survive. These are the roses that I want to preserve.

Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.

We believe Mr. Campbell is simply ready to take some time out to smell the roses before accepting any new challenges.

I've always imagined having roses at my wedding. It's just the way I've pictured it.

If the power goes out, business stops ... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

That is the traditional way. My grandfather who grew roses did it. It is the traditional way for roses to be treated as special flowers,

It's not all going to be roses all the time. Right now, we're going through a little something. I've never seen a team that didn't go through something. Some teams find a way to get out of it. Some teams don't. Now it's time for us to get out of it.

It's not all roses in the labor market. I think the worst is behind us, but we're more likely to have flat, or sideways, movements in job creation for the next year, year and a half.

It's possible roses might have been cut even earlier than four to seven days previous, especially on Valentine's Day -- the number-one holiday for florists -- when there is such a big market all at once. So, it's good to get them back into water as soon as possible.

Their concerts are the most fun thing to do in South Bend. The real Guns N' Roses haven't sounded this good since 1989. I think that if Slash heard some of their guitar solos on Friday, he would immediately run back to his rehearsal studio to practice.

It's important for people to see all the different types of roses that grow here and how they're grown in the desert. We're expecting the community, including seniors who want to come for just a few hours a week, to help tend the garden.

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;

Inevitably, anything you write that's not sunshine and roses will upset some people's sensitivities. However, if adoption is finally to get on a level playing field as a normal, natural way of forming a family, we have to look at it in all its dimensions and revel in the great stuff and talk about the not-so-great stuff. That gets a national conversation going.

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

It's a shame that the Run for the Roses has been degraded into a run for junk food. Next year, will the thoroughbreds run at Taco Bell Downs?

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

We don't think that Mr. Sharon is coming to plant roses all around the road between here and Jerusalem. He is going to come with more aggression, with more atrocities against our people.

How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

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.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.

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.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.