“ Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower. Margaret Atwood
“ One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. Anthony Liccione
“ As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan
“ This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold. Aberjhani
“ Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies… James Oppenheim
“ She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords. Keirsten White
“ Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom. Matshona Dhliwayo
