Flower Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

— Teresa of Avila

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I…

— Abraham Lincoln

Sitting on thistles doesn't do them any Good. Take all the Life out of them.

— Eeyore

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should…

— Henry David Thoreau

If life was a box of thistles, I would deal with all the tough and prickly ones just so you wouldn't ever have to…

— Anonymous

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine…

— Robin Lane Fox

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

— Rumi

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

— Margaret Oliphant

With all the bullshit in my life lately, I'm surprised I can't fertilize a nice flower garden in my back yard!

— Green Monk

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

— Anonymous