Rose Bush Quotes

#1. Perhaps power had to be tended, like Tieren said, but not all things grew in gardens. Plenty of plants grew wild. And Lila had always thought of herself more as a weed than a rose bush.

Victoria Schwab

#2. And again that big, bushy thing of hers worked its bloom and magic. It began to have an independent existence for me too. There was Germaine and there was that rose bush of hers.. I liked them separately and I liked them together.

Henry Miller

#3. You are a rose bush left out in the wild, scraping for survival. You have fought for everything you have, and you thrive on the struggle. You're called to it. The harder things are, the better you get.

Denise Grover Swank

#4. What restless woman can resist a man with a shovel in one hand and a glowing rose bush in the other, and a moderately crazed glitter in his eyes that might be mistaken for love?

Margaret Atwood

#5. California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

W.C. Fields

#6. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

LeCrae

#7. Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden.

Larry Enright

#8. Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

Rajneesh

#9. Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree, behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap.

M.J. DeMarco

#10. Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'
'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.

Tom Robbins

#12. The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Henry Van Dyke

#13. A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

Marianne Williamson

#14. I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#15. Wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

Robert Grudin

#17. I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand
but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

George W. Bush

#18. I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside.

Mia Sheridan

#19. I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

Mavis Gallant

#20. The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

Florence Littauer

#21. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

Felix Adler

#22. When you do things with love,
it is a song of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

Walter Scott

#24. You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.

Sappho

#25. I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

Jeb Bush

#26. No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

John Muir

#27. One should always have ambitions which are just a bit out of reach.

Sharon E. Laker

#28. Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whisper.
I know who you really are. Who will ever want you, Adelina?
My fury heightens. Everyone. They will cower at my feet, and I will make them bleed.

Marie Lu

#29. We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

Bill Gates

#30. Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.

Courtney Milan

#31. I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.

Pete Rose

#32. I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

Joan Of Arc

#33. Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

Bob Lefsetz

#34. In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

Judd Rose

#35. I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

Rose Leslie

#36. I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

Carmen Miranda