Mr Anniversary Gift

November 3, 2006

Famous Rose Quotes

"It is at the edge of the petal that love waits." ~ William Carlos Williams

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December." - J. M. Barrie

"The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart." ~ Frederick Peterson 1859-1938

"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is." ~ J B Yeats 1871-1957

"A rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein

"Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?" ~ Julia C R Dorr

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring." ~ William Carlos Williams

"And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies." - Christopher Marlowe

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." ~ Richard B Sheridan 1751-1816

"Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing." - William Butler Yeats