Top 213 Thorn Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.
Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.
Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.
This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn)
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
What do I think of digital recording? Well, it's all right. But those old thorn needles, now, that was a sound.
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?
Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.
Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
What’s this? (Fang) One for all and all for fun, my friend. You didn’t think I’d let you fight demons all on your own, did you? (Thorn)
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.
The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.
The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.
I am the one rich thing that morn
Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
But bend and take my being in.
How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn
Now that The Thorn and the Blossom has come out and I'm done with my doctoral degree (yes, I'm finally Dr. Goss), I'm turning to longer projects.
Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.
Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.
Social media, for me, is just a thorn in my side. It's painful. For us in crisis, it has totally changed the way we do business. It's a big, big game changer.
I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
What do you want exactly? (Fang) An end to the mistreatment of small, fluffy dust bunnies. (Thorn)
The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.
Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.
I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!
He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
