“The heart's actions are neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
“That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.” — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“The unicorn discovered several clumps of yellowed thistles and ate them with relish. This time Ciri did not join him. But when… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
