Rose Quotes
1911 Rose quotes by 1138 unique authors
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On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been…
— Hilary McKay
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I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano…
— Mindy Kaling
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Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic,…
— Ntozake Shange
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Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream.…
— Cassandra Clare
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I…
— Suzanne Collins
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All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the…
— Beverly Cleary
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But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled,…
— David Klass
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There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current…
— Kristin Cashore
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The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
— Sarah Waters
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I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela…
— Jorge Amado
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From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles…
— Homer
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Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but…
— Anne Bronte
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It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows…
— Suzanne Collins
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The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would…
— Stephen King
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Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
— Neil Gaiman
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I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I…
— Rumi
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As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her head. Heavy molding…
— Karen Hawkins
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I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her…
— Franny Billingsley
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Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate her exhibiting a…
— Franny Billingsley
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Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert…
— Franny Billingsley
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... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
— Jose Saramago
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