White Rose Society

Famous quotes containing the words white rose, white, rose and/or society:

    White rose
    you are a stricken weary thing,
    shaming the spring . . .
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens. As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
    Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 2:1-3.

    My belief is that no being and no society composed of human beings ever did, or ever will, come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)