Adversity Quote by Mike Hockney

“A rose for all its beauty still has a thorn”

— Ken Maxon

“Love will reveal the pathway from thorns to roses.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The thorns we endure in life are but shadowed by the precious petals of a rosey outlook.”

— Andrew Pacholyk

“Time must have covered it over with roses so it would not be remembered. One particular rose, that has an unexpected magic, on top…

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

“There was so much force and beauty in the windows, such unsettled sadness in what little I knew of Rose's life, all her longing,…

— Kim Edwards

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god…

— Thomas Moore

“Now Rose will have to go to the ends of the earth to find-and kill-the man she loves.”

— Richelle Mead

“Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match”

— Joshua Caleb

“Every rose has a thorn.”

— Poison

“Rose is not complete without the thorns.”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan