rosebud

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

proverb Act and enjoy yourself now, before your situation changes. The line comes from Robert Herrick's 17th-century poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," and is an example of carpe diem ("seize the day") poetry. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may—you never know what tomorrow will bring. Youth is a fleeting thing, so gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

Prov. Enjoy yourself while you can, before you lose the opportunity or before you become too old. (From Robert Herrick's poem, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.") Sue: Should I go out on a date with Robbie on Saturday, or should I stay home and study? Ellen: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. You ought to travel abroad now, while you're young, before you have responsibilities that might keep you from going. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
See also: gather, may, rosebud, while, ye
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
  • Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
  • teach a man to fish
  • village
  • it takes a village
  • bee in one's bonnet, to have a
  • be what you appear to be
  • beget
  • burnt
  • a burnt child dreads the fire
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This 75% organic moisturizing balm, which is being stocked at Parfumerie Douglas and online for $7, has a sheer pink tint and is infused with rosebud and the sweet tasting herb, stevia.
There are undoubtedly more analytical and theoretical possibilities for telling Rosebud's story, but Weinberg eschews placing her in broader political and historical contexts (although her narrative is enriched by findings from both, over decades of research) or in the history of American Indian women, particularly in New York City, in performance.
The "Sicangu Lakota Oyate" or "Burnt Thigh People" roamed and hunted the Great Plains for centuries, but since the 1880s they've resided on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south central South Dakota, according to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Web site.
Anderson's photographs of the Brule people at Rosebud first came to my attention in the early 1970s with the publication of Paul Dyck's Brule, The Sioux People of the Rosebud, which featured numerous Anderson photographs.
During the late 1980s, while searching for a low-cost energy source to meet the reservation's needs, the Rosebud Sioux learned that the wind on their reservation could potentially meet one-twelfth of the entire US electricity demand.
In contrast, he focuses on federal Indian statute and case law in order to show how the collective bad faith of whites has been institutionalized in a manner that constructs different political interests along racial lines in and around the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, thereby creating the "deadliest enemies" that the Supreme Court wrongly declared in 1886 was explainable due to "local ill feeling." One of his central themes in describing this process is the contradiction in the discourse of federal Indian law between treaty rights, which sees Indian tribes and their citizens as legally different from other Americans, and constitutional rights, in which American Indians are legally the same.
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This spring, Shank returned to Rosebud to continue learning about the conditions that foster life at vent sites and that shift the demographics of animals living in vent communities.
Yet through it all the registered nurses of Rosebud Health Care Center in Forsyth, Montana represent what is right and good about democracy.
The play by Rosebud Productions has been written by Wales-based playwright Mark Jenkins.
Chris Goldsmith of the Rosebud Agency, which booked the tour, said no explanation was given by the State Department for the denial of visas.
Marjorie Weinberg, The Real Rosebud: The Triumph of a Lakota Woman.
Robert Futterman, chairman and CEO, Ariel Schuster, director, and Terrence Lowenberg, associate of RKF, are representing the landlord, Rosebud Associates, in leasing the retail portion of the newly constructed 25-story, 480-unit residential building.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe joined the Crazy Horse estate and Big Crow in the suit.