I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Briars and thistles wither not so soon as lilies and roses. They may be taken out of the world, of whom the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down;… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
