I didn't know the names of the flowers
now my garden is gone.
- Allen Ginsberg
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
- J. M. Barrie
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