Quotes About Wild Roses

#1. I think that people tend to associate the word "wild" with something that is used up and dirty; but I associate the word "wild" with wildflowers, wild roses, things in fields that haven't been hurt yet! So let's be things in fields that have healed and that have grown. Let's be wild.

C. JoyBell C.

#2. The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

Stephen King

#3. Only last week I went out among the thorns and said
to the wild roses:
deny me not,
but suffer my devotion.
Then, all afternoon, I sat among them.

Mary Oliver

#4. That was the trouble with wild roses - they grew under a man's defenses when he wasn't watching.

Sabrina Jeffries

#5. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

Cathleen Schine

#7. In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

Francis Turner Palgrave

#8. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

Sharyn McCrumb

#9. They blossom ever where you tread ...
Wild roses bloody red.

L.J.Smith

#10. The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

C. JoyBell C.

#11. The wild roses were wide open and brilliant, the blue-eyed grass was in purple flower, and the silvery milkweed was just coming on.

Willa Cather

#12. Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild;
But there, beside the altar, there, is rest.
-from Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration

Ernest Dowson

#13. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

William Shakespeare

#14. The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

John Ruskin

#15. The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Katey Sagal

#17. Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte

#18. Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

Carl Sandburg

#19. I think looks do matter on television.

Joy Behar

#20. A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#21. You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

Lenny Kravitz

#22. True devotion is motivated by love alone and devoid of selfish entanglements.

Rick Hocker

#23. During that grace period, nothing much could bother me or get me down. The horrible thing that I'd always dreaded was going to happen to me had finally happened.

Tim Kreider