18 quotes found
“Love and a red rose can't be hid.”
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
“Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.”
“'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape...”
“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”
“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
“No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.”
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”
“Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't ...”
“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
“I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be se...”
“Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.”
“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.”
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
