Roses Quotes

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete!

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

One may live without bread, not without roses.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.