White Rose Society

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

    O, white pear,
    your flower-tufts
    thick on the branch
    bring summer and ripe fruits
    in their purple hearts.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
    You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled
    Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
    The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    America today is capable of terrific intolerance about smoking, or toxic waste that threatens trout. But only a deeply confused society is more concerned about protecting lungs than minds, trout than black women.
    Garry Wills (b. 1934)