The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends.
- Persian Proverb
If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
- G.K. Chesterton
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
- Bryant
From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn.
- Greek Proverb