White Rose Society

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

    “The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
    Of baby green and show the white beneath....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Let him
    Who was love’s teacher teach you too love’s cure;
    Let the same hand that wounded bring the balm.
    Healing and poisonous herbs the same soil bears,
    And rose and nettle oft grow side by side.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “Whenever the society is dissolved, it is certain the government of that society cannot remain ... that being as impossible, as for the frame of a house to subsist when the materials of it are scattered and dissipated by a whirlwind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an earthquake.”
    —John Locke (1632–1704)