... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open…

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The main thing about money is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

— Hal Holbrook

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

— Amity Shlaes

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

— Dave Beard

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

— Eddie Money

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to…

— Ian Gardner

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

— Louisa May Alcott

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

— Jeanine Larmoth

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

— James Hervey

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

— Christopher Fry

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical…

— Diane Ackerman

The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds…

— John D. Rockefeller

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers…

— Samuel Griswold Goodrich