Top 111 Roses Quotes

I should be in an old people’s home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It’s a good life, isn’t it?

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N’ Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can’t expect things must always go your way.

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.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses – I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

If you really screw up, send roses.

When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, ‘Didi, will you be my Valentine today?’

I told my mom I wanted to buy roses for my teachers so I’m pretty sure my son’ll be that way too.

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.

Life is never a bed of roses, but it’s not all doom and gloom either.

I love ‘The War Of The Roses,’ especially as my husband is in it! I’ve often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.

My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N’ Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of ’80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a family friend: Emmylou Harris’ ‘Roses In The Snow.’ It was so incredible. This record, to this day, is the favorite album of my life.

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else.

When I finished the trilogy of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, I had a gear shift and thought, ‘I need to take a moment to smell the roses.’

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

We’ve got to learn how to not look at creed or color. Look at how beautiful a bouquet of roses looks like – different color roses, all look beautiful. We have to learn how to let our beauty of the color of our roses shine to the world.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N’ Roses.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

We have a saying in Guns N’ Roses: ‘When somebody’s gonna get yelled at, they’re gonna get the corn.’

We all agree now – by ‘we’ I mean intelligent people under sixty – that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

‘A Court of Thorns and Roses,’ big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the ‘Princess Mononoke’ soundtrack.

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

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

Roses don’t always grow in the courtyard of kings, they can also grow in the backyard of beggars.

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

Nobody’s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

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!

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N’ Roses came out. It wasn’t until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn’t fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

You’ll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

I bought a girl roses once.

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called ‘Aztec,’ I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the ‘typically Mexican landscape’ around me – banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros – because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

I’m solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That’s what I believe.

I would play with Guns n’ Roses anytime.

I didn’t want to do the usual drill of going down on one knee and popping the question or shower her with roses. Instead, I decided to stand on one leg and propose to her.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

We want to give you the roses when you’re dead. That’s how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.

People think if you are a celebrity and if you’re beautiful, or if you’re slim, then life is a bed of roses. Or they think that if you’re wealthy, you don’t have normal relationship problems, because why would anyone reject you?

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

You must bring great resolve to your work. It’s not all a bed of roses.

When I was in high school, I remember, on my Converse sneakers, on one side, I had written ‘Social Distortion,’ and on the other side, I had written ‘Guns N’ Roses.’

I’m really good at growing roses.

Decide who you are and what your goals entail – then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I’m psyched.

I can’t think of anyone who’s reformed for art’s sake. That’s why the Roses will never reform.

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

I hate roses. Don’t you? It’s all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I’ve not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?

I’m definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

There’s no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.

I would say, ‘Go ask any couple that’s been married for 30, 40, 50 years… It hasn’t always been roses.’

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn’t expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

I’ve got six solo albums. I’ve been round the world three times. I don’t even think about the Roses.

Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both… We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, ‘Have a nice day’ or even have one. To be honest, I’ve never heard a Jew say that. We’re just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain.’

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

I’ve been wearing Red Roses since I was 22. Jo Malone London is woven into the fabric of my life, and I couldn’t be happier to be working with a brand I love so much.

You can’t have a pain-free life. It can’t all be roses and unicorns.

Children teach you to stop and smell the roses even though you’re busier than you’ve ever been before.

A woman at the Limited once asked me, ‘Why do you work?’ She said, ‘You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?’ I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, ‘You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you’ll get hit by a truck.’