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Roses Quotes

"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, American Activist

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

Syd Barrett, English Musician

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

George Eliot, British Author

Roses, Hunger, Longing, Wishing

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

Oscar Levant, American Composer

"Everything's coming up roses - for me."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

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