172 Quotes About Roses
- Author Sondra Faye
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It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.
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- Author Crystal Woods
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Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.
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- Author Mary Oliver
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Everyone now and again wonders aboutthose questions that have no readyanswers: first cause, God's existence,what happens when the curtain goesdown and nothing stops it, not kissing,not going to the mall, not the SuperBowl."Wild roses," I said to them one morning."Do you have the answers? And if you do,would you tell me?"The roses laughed softly. "Forgive us,"they said. "But as you can see, we arejust now entirely busy being roses.
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- Author Gina Barreca
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Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses — for me and for you.
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- Author Ellen Read
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Alexandra took the rose and lifted it to her face. The fragrance was intoxicating and the soft petals tickled her lips, as they must have done Benedict’s. It was as if he had kissed her. A shiver of delight caressed her body and she felt the warmth of a blush on her throat and cheeks.
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- Author Alexander Chee
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...you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.
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- Author Will Advise
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Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don’t believe me? Try it for yourself and see if you’ll be good afterwards. Undeath is a way of life, for some things. That doesn’t make it good or anything. Especially anything. Nothing makes anything anything. Because nothing is a serious matter, and anything just is.
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- Author James Oppenheim
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As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
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- Author Andrew Edward Lucier
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Her smile alone could light up the darkest of soulsThe scent of a harvest of rosesSkin as soft as silk clothes Energy explosive
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