Rose Tree

Famous quotes containing the words rose and/or tree:

“This thorn
Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are falling—what can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being done—the organism is preparing to rest.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)