| "I had never expected that the china initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of china)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." »Rob Cella |
| "Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of china between them!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy You can do that in china but you can get your ass killed out here, man." »Rush Hour |
| "Carter My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to china, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too." »Rush Hour |
| "On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer china 'crost the bay." »Rudyard Kipling |
| "He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." »Persian Proverb |
| "There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns." »Pilpay |
| "The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose." »Heda Bejar |
| "What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." »William Shakespeare |
| "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible |
| "True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades." »Unknown |
| "A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of china or in ghettos and suburbs of America." »Theodore Harold White |
| "If Pete rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement." »Jerry Coleman |
| "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." »H.L. Mencken |
| "of all the inventions that have helped to unify china perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government." »Madame Chiang |
| "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis |
| "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." »Salvador Dali |
| "In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men." »Homer |
| "Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind." »T. S. Eliot |
| "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." »Dale Carnegie |
| "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose" »Johann von Goethe |
| "One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." »James Grover Thurber |
| "Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi |
| "Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos." »Andrew Schneider |
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