Quotes About Thorns

As youth flowers into maturity, the barrier between nerd and herd grows taller and thicker and begins to sprout thorns.

When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you all sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorned, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness.

Its great thorns pierced the canvas, and its heavy fragrance rushed within, enveloping his sleep, becoming one with his breath, and penetrated the chambers of his exploding heart.

Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.

The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyriaís thorns and thistles.

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.