Flowers Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

— Francis Hodgson Burnett

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

— Rumi

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

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

— Teresa of Avila

“Common thistle is everywhere,” she said. “Which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another.”

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

— Abraham Lincoln

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

— James Thomas Fields

The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.

— Harry Hooton

“roses are no more difficult to grow than any other shrub or flower. But just as other plants need”

— Maggie Oster

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Things ain't always as they seem, even roses have thorns.

— Ashaba