{"quotes":[{"text":"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","tags":["flowers","love","roses"],"id":1076,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry"},{"text":"If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","challenges","flower","flower","masterpiece","matshona-dhliwayo","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","obstacles","overcome","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-obs","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming","rose","roses","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":3730,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["love","roses","losing "],"id":4183,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","tags":["flowers","importance","longing","love","protection","roses","sheep","stars","thorns","uniqueness","war"],"id":8111,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry"},{"text":"Live in Thorns but always enchant the hearts with your fragrance.","author":"Alok Jagawat","tags":["fragrance","heart","roses","thorns"],"id":8549,"author_id":"Alok+Jagawat"},{"text":"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.","author":"Tina Charles","tags":["roses","rock","roll "],"id":8590,"author_id":"Tina+Charles"},{"text":"Life is uncertain.Today you get a rose.Tomorrow you feel the thorns.But the end result is red, always!!","author":"Shillpi S Banerrji","tags":["best-inspirational","feelings","followers","good-reads","indian-","life","moving-on","roses","survival","thorns","writers"],"id":14695,"author_id":"Shillpi+S+Banerrji"},{"text":"And the shower of roses spun around me, inviting me to take part in their ever-present waltz.","author":"Gina Marinello-Sweeney","tags":["meaning","rose","roses","shower-of-roses"],"id":16575,"author_id":"Gina+Marinello-Sweeney"},{"text":"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.","author":"Richard Brinsley Sheridan","tags":["roses","garden","you "],"id":18881,"author_id":"Richard+Brinsley+Sheridan"},{"text":"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["complaints","glass-half-full","gratitude","misattributed-abraham-lincoln","optimism","perspective","pessimism","positive-thinking","roses","thorns"],"id":25707,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}