A Quote by James K. Polk

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

James K. Polk

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James K. Polk
American - President
November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

James K. Polk

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

Abraham Lincoln

There's an image that my mother saved my father in 1968 and everything was a bed of roses after that. And that just wasn't true. There were as many struggles in the 1980s and the 1990s as there were in the 1960s.

John Carter Cash

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Fidel Castro

My journey has not been a bed of roses.

Shakti Mohan

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

Hank Aaron

I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me.

Claire Danes

There's nothing historically in my life very flashy. I'm not exceptionally beautiful. I'm not exceptionally wealthy.

Samin Nosrat

The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

Lana Turner

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

Christopher Meloni

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is never a bed of roses, but it's not all doom and gloom either.

Shakin' Stevens

I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.