Quotes About Withered Roses

#1. Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Adults don't always realize the profound effect their words can have on young kids - girls in particular. These people mean well, of course. What harm could possibly come from telling a little girl she's pretty? Technically, none - unless that's the only affirmation she ever hears.

Kylie Bisutti

#3. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

#4. The strength of individual greatness makes a great team.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

#6. There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

William Hazlitt

#7. Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Peter King

#9. The other two weren't even dancers. They were football players. Which was ridiculous.

Nova Ren Suma

#10. Whatever good work you begin to do, beg of God with most earnest prayer to perfect it.

Benedict Of Nursia

#11. Nothing else can take a cloud's place but the sun.

Serena Winter

#12. I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

David Eagleman

#14. You, my straight little QB, went roaring into subspace on your virgin run.

T.S. McKinney

#15. Remember, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's impossible.

Brad Meltzer