Roses Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.’ – Ben Hogan
‘Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.’ – Oscar Levant
‘Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It’s what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.’ – Lana
‘God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.’ – James M. Barrie
‘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 that are blooming outside our windows today.’ – Dale Carnegie
‘It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.’ – George Eliot
‘Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.’ – Rita Moreno
‘Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.’ – Alphonse Karr
‘It’s never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.’ – AB de Villiers
‘Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.’ – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
‘A revolution is not a bed of roses.’ – Fidel Castro
‘I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.’ – Emma Goldman
‘Truths and roses have thorns about them.’ – Henry David Thoreau
‘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.’ – Yoko Ono
‘An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.’ – H. L. Mencken
‘We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.’ – Bernard Williams
‘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.’ – Henri Matisse
‘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.’ – Reuven Rivlin
‘The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.’ – Ovid
‘Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.’ – Charles de Gaulle
‘Roses don’t always grow in the courtyard of kings, they can also grow in the backyard of beggars.’ – Anu Malik
‘With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.’ – James K. Polk
‘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.’ – Arthur Miller
‘My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.’ – Bret Michaels
‘At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.’ – Ellen Key
”A Court of Thorns and Roses’ was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’ and ‘Tam Lin.’ I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: ‘What if ‘Beauty’ was a huntress?” – Sarah J. Maas
‘A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.’ – Jean Cocteau
‘Decide who you are and what your goals entail – then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.
‘What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.’ – Thomas Moore
‘Everything’s coming up roses – for me.’ – Ethel Merman
‘The only time I think I’ve ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during – after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing ‘It’s So Easy’ and ‘Brownstone’ in Velvet Revolver.’ – Slash
‘One of the main dilemmas that’s pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there’s a finish line and that maybe there’s a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.’ – Chris Cornell
‘You can’t have a pain-free life. It can’t all be roses and unicorns.’ – Mark Manson
‘I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don’t believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It’s not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.’ – Nigel Mansell
‘Love is not always bed of roses. When its unfulfilled, it causes immense pain and anger.’ – Ankit Tiwari
‘Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘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.’ – Susan B. Anthony
‘My favourite flowers are English country roses – I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.’ – Kate Moss
‘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.’ – Steven Adler
‘I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.’ – Siri Hustvedt
‘I love to prune my roses. That’s the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It’s like if you’re a painter, you can forget everything else while you’re doing it.’ – Julie Andrews
‘And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.’ – Francis Quarles
‘I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can’t expect things must always go your way.’ – AB de Villiers
‘There’s no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.’ – La La Anthony
‘Guns N’ Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don’t take it that seriously.’ – Duff McKagan
‘There’s so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.’ – Josie Maran
‘Life is never a bed of roses, but it’s not all doom and gloom either.’ – Shakin’ Stevens
‘As for Guns N’ Roses, I don’t think there’s ever a chance of a reunion.’ – Slash
‘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.’ – Nikki Sixx
‘The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.’ – Rose Schneiderman
‘I personally think that a bouquet of white roses is simple, chic, and surprisingly long-lasting.’ – Jeremiah Brent
‘I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.’ – Ann Voskamp
‘There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don’t understand why. Guns n’ Roses. U2. But you know, that’s just my thing. Music is pretty personal.’ – Ric Ocasek
‘By the time Guns n’ Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.’ – Duff McKagan
‘Have you seen the roses? There’s a whole lot of colours.’ – Syd Barrett
‘Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.’ – Charles de Gaulle
”Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.’ – Edward Moore
‘I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.” – Bernie Siegel
‘I told my mom I wanted to buy roses for my teachers so I’m pretty sure my son’ll be that way too.’ – Omarion
‘Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.’ – Johnny Mercer
”A Court of Thorns and Roses,’ big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the ‘Princess Mononoke’ soundtrack.’ – Sarah J. Maas
‘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.’ – Cy Twombly
‘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.’ – Clive Bell
‘While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.’ – Thomas Moore
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll, no roses or gardening.’ – Tina Charles
‘But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.’ – Rudolf Otto
‘I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.’ – Esai Morales
‘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.’ – Joe Slovo
‘We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.’ – Junipero Serra
‘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?’ – Jerry Pournelle
‘Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.’ – Stephen Gardiner
‘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.’ – Maureen Forrester
‘They are not long, the days of wine and roses.’ – Ernest Dowson
‘Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.’ – George Herbert
‘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.’ – Steven Adler
‘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.’ – Steven Adler
‘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.’ – Chloe Sevigny
‘I’m the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I’m Mr. Roses.’ – A. J. McLean
‘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!’ – Chris Webber
‘I love to smell like roses, literally all day! – Rachel Roy’ – Rachel Roy
‘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.’ – Ron Ben-Israel
‘The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn’t have, ‘I love Frank’ on it, it had, ‘I love AC/DC’, ‘Guns N Roses’, ‘Pearl Jam’. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.’ – Michael Buble
‘Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.’ – Padma Lakshmi
‘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.’ – Alastair Campbell
‘A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N’ Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.’ – Niall Horan
‘I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I’m psyched.’ – Jonah Hill
‘The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I’ll go to the gym and put on old albums – Guns N’ Roses or old Jay-Z.’ – Fergie
‘I would say, ‘Go ask any couple that’s been married for 30, 40, 50 years… It hasn’t always been roses.” – Jason Aldean
‘Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N’ Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A…. push shuffle and anything will come on.’ – Big Boi
‘I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that’s a good thing because I don’t stop to smell the roses – which is not a good personal thing. I don’t stop and enjoy those moments… Always on to the next and never in the moment.’ – Nicki Minaj
‘Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.’ – Hayley Mills
‘I can’t have white roses. They symbolize death.’ – Nina Arianda
‘The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket – they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.’ – Julie Burchill
‘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.” – Les Wexner
‘When you’re watching television, you don’t want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don’t want to see a relationship that’s just blossoming and everyone’s happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That’s also not true in life.’ – Candice Accola
‘I’m a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn’t always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.’ – Steve Wilkos
‘You must bring great resolve to your work. It’s not all a bed of roses.’ – Douglas Conant
‘As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.’ – Thelma Golden
‘We have a saying in Guns N’ Roses: ‘When somebody’s gonna get yelled at, they’re gonna get the corn.” – Axl Rose
‘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.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones
‘I was a big Guns N’ Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I’d dress up as Axl and she’d be Slash, and we’d rock out in front of the mirror singing ‘Patience.” – Kirsten Dunst
‘The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we’re lucky, we all have at least one.’ – Roberta Smith
‘Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses – I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.’ – Psy
‘I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It’s where my heart’s at.’ – Billy Unger
‘I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to ‘Paradise City’ by Guns ‘N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I’ll never forget that.’ – Darren Robinson
‘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.’ – Christian Kane
‘I don’t think it’s ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n’ Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you’re good at it, that’s a plus.’ – Zakk Wylde
‘I would play with Guns n’ Roses anytime.’ – Sebastian Bach
‘A lot of people thought my career was over. If you’re not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn’t like your music, or you’ve been dropped. It has to something negative. It’s not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.’ – Maxwell
‘People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can’t. I’m always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.’ – Eddie Trunk
‘God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can’t touch it with chocolates, roses, or diamonds.’ – Monica Johnson
‘If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.’ – Martin Jacques
‘Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.’ – Carl Honore
‘I know politics is emotionally brutal; I’ve already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N’ Roses and AC/DC.’ – Paul Dano
‘I always looked up to Slash from Guns N’ Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.’ – Amber Rose
‘You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.’ – Bill Gross
‘All of our early hits, ‘Danke Schoen’ and ‘Red Roses,’ were produced by Bobby Darin.’ – Wayne Newton
‘When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin’ out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear.’ – Justin Chon
‘I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.’ – Jaclyn Smith
‘The guy who enters pro sports hasn’t run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it’s been nothing but roses.’ – Jim Finks
‘When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.’ – Natalie Dormer
‘I don’t think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.’ – Martin Freeman
‘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.” – Orlando Bloom
‘Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.’ – Orison Swett Marden
‘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.’ – Gary Jennings
‘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.’ – Gene Saks
‘Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.’ – Dorothea Dix
‘Even if the songs are at times painful – ’cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I’ve been going through – there’s a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.’ – Rachel Platten
‘If you really screw up, send roses.’ – Letitia Baldrige
‘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.’ – Kimberly Schlapman
‘I’d like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There’s always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, ‘The Subject Was Roses’ was that thing.’ – Frank D. Gilroy
‘I can’t pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We’ve got masses.’ – Mary Berry
‘When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.’ – William Godwin
‘Who were the biggest acts in the world in 1987? Guns N’ Roses and Metallica. I shamelessly pandered to surfers and skateboarders, and in pictures from then, you’ll see Slash and those guys wearing N.W.A stuff. If they thought it was cool, people in Kansas and Wyoming would buy it. That’s how we broached the subject.’ – Jerry Heller
‘Both my grandmother and mother used to wear the Red Roses cologne, and when I was 21 or 22, I smelled the same scent on a friend of mine.’ – Poppy Delevingne
‘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.’ – Poppy Delevingne
‘I bought a girl roses once.’ – Cameron Dallas
‘I just believe in giving people their roses while they’re living. That’s my new thing – period.’ – BJ the Chicago Kid
‘Without a dog, you’d never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses… and then lift your leg on them.’ – W. Bruce Cameron
‘That is one thing about playing with Guns N’ Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.’ – Zacky Vengeance
‘When I was very young, it was Guns N’ Roses and Metallica. I’d play air guitar on my bed. They’ve been the thread throughout my life.’ – M. Shadows
‘I should be in an old people’s home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It’s a good life, isn’t it?’ – Anne Reid
‘The Guns N’ Roses reunion didn’t happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.’ – Axl Rose
‘When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me ‘simian.’ I had to look that up at the time.’ – Ian Brown
‘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.’ – Ian Brown
‘I see The Stone Roses in ’89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.’ – Ian Brown
‘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.’ – Ian Brown
‘Some of the kids who discovered me from my ‘F.E.A.R.’ record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, ‘I don’t even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.’ I buzz off that.’ – Ian Brown
‘People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can’t change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.’ – Ian Brown
‘I can’t think of anyone who’s reformed for art’s sake. That’s why the Roses will never reform.’ – Ian Brown
‘The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn’t.’ – Ian Brown
‘I’m only really good at making music. I wasn’t convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses’ LP.’ – Ian Brown
‘Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.’ – Ian Brown
‘I’d never been paid for the first Roses LP – it was 2002 before we received any royalties.’ – Ian Brown
‘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?’ – Ian Brown
‘With the Stone Roses, I always thought we’d be successful because we had some great songs.’ – Ian Brown
‘By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.’ – Ian Brown
‘With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.’ – Ian Brown
‘If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I’d go and get a job in B&Q before I’d reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I’m never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again.’ – Ian Brown
‘I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn’t get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.’ – Ian Brown
‘I’ve got six solo albums. I’ve been round the world three times. I don’t even think about the Roses.’ – Ian Brown
‘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.’ – Bernard Hopkins
‘When I was a kid and listening to Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses, if someone had told me that there would come a time, and I would play some of those songs with those people, I would never have believed it.’ – Myles Kennedy
”Death & the Roses’ came out of ideas about flagellation and guilt and from looking at Piero della Francesca’s ‘The Flagellation of Christ.” – Chris Ofili
‘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.” – Ryan Adams
‘There’s so many cool things that happen, where you want to kind of sit back and smell the roses and say, ‘Wow, this is awesome!’ But then you’re already thinking a mile ahead about what the next landmark is, what the next goal is.’ – Adam Cole
‘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.’ – Drew McIntyre
‘I didn’t have any work to do, and I had files of my personal and Guns N’ Roses financial statements for the previous eight years. I wanted to learn how to read these, but I didn’t trust anybody. I just got a lightbulb in my head and said, ‘I want to go to school.’ That began my journey, taking accountancy and business classes at Seattle.’ – Duff McKagan
‘Children teach you to stop and smell the roses even though you’re busier than you’ve ever been before.’ – Ainsley Earhardt
‘Oh my God, Guns N’ Roses – it’s like, jeez, that’s what made me move out to Los Angeles. ‘Welcome to the Jungle,’ you know – it’s been a huge inspiration for me.’ – John 5
‘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.’ – Charles Bradley
‘I grew up with my dad’s music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands – Guns N’ Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.’ – Lzzy Hale
‘I’m really good at growing roses.’ – Kelly Brook
‘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?’ – Kelly Brook
‘I’m big into the Stone Roses.’ – Guy Martin
‘I remember all the magic markers of the first time I heard the Stone Roses and that Madchester vibe, the Verve and all these groups coming up.’ – Sean Dyche
‘What I do regret is working too hard sometimes instead of really enjoying my youth. I’m trying to make an effort to stop and smell the roses now.’ – Ser’Darius Blain
‘I think Ferraris should always have roses in them, it looks amazing.’ – Alex Hirsch
‘Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called ‘I Found You Among the Roses.” – John Carter Cash
‘There’s an image that my mother saved my father in 1968 and everything was a bed of roses after that. And that just wasn’t true. There were as many struggles in the 1980s and the 1990s as there were in the 1960s.’ – John Carter Cash
‘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.’ – Laura Jane Grace
‘I’m a little more interested in smelling the roses, playing more golf and tennis and more cross-country skiiing and doing stuff with my kids.’ – Anne Murray
‘The nice thing about living in a semi-small town is that I can just go home and switch off. I go home now and I trim roses, rake leaves, wake up early in the morning and scare the raccoons off the lawn! It’s kinda nice, that’s the way I turn off, in Bakersfield, California.’ – Gregory Porter
‘When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N’ Roses.’ – Dizzee Rascal
‘Me personally, I’ve had really great experiences. I’d be lying if I said it was all roses and perfect, but, by and large, the metal community is so incredibly supportive.’ – Nita Strauss
‘Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain.” – Chad Gilbert
‘I suppose I’m a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N’ Roses.’ – Drew Pinsky
‘My mother had a beautiful rose garden and would cut roses all summer and place in our house.’ – Tinsley Mortimer
‘I want people to know that it’s not always dandelions and roses when you’re doing something like ‘Aladdin.” – Mena Massoud
‘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?” – Tridha Choudhury
‘He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.’ – Beth Ostrosky Stern
‘As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like ‘Charade,’ ‘Moon River,’ ‘Wine and Roses,’ ‘Dear Heart’ – they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.’ – Henry Mancini
‘I listen to rap, reggae, Nirvana and Guns N’ Roses.’ – Marc Gasol
‘Paris works so hard. I always say, ‘Paris, you also have to stop now and again and smell the roses.” – Kathy Hilton
‘I’d love to see the Stone Roses do a show but it won’t happen.’ – Shaun Ryder
‘My journey has not been a bed of roses.’ – Shakti Mohan
‘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.’ – Nithiin
‘If I meet somebody and I’m like, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ And you give somebody a hug, or a half-hug, and they stank and it rubs off on me, that is contagious ’cause I’ll be smelling like roses and then it’s like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I’ll change shirts and I’m still funky.’ – Paul Wall
‘I love roses and I love the smell of them in my room.’ – Trina
‘I love the Australian Open, but the mecca of tennis is Wimbledon. The Royals are there, everyone’s in white. It’s just so cool, you can smell the roses when you’re on the court.’ – Dylan Alcott