Quotes About Thorns

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

Al igual que las rosas, ella sólo mostraba sus espinas cuando él intentaba arrancarle los pétalos.

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.

let those who have abundance remember that they are surrounded with thorns, and let them take great care not to be pricked by them; and let those who have little and are very much hemmed in know that God planned [their poverty] to keep them from evil and hurtful snares.

And, O my God, who madest thyself a light in a bush, in the midst of these brambles and thorns of a sharp sickness, appear unto me so that I may see thee, and know thee to be my God, applying thyself to me, even in these sharp and thorny passages.

As a rose blooms and grows with thorns as a protective nature; similarly, love navigates with jealousy and selfishness, as a self-protective measure; such attribution exhibits a natural weapon.

No matter how beautiful and fragrant the rose stays, it naturally blooms between the thorns, which no one embraces the thorny rose. Similarly, no matter how lovely can be a family head, but its old trend principles and self-restricted thoughts certainly cause a bitter, even poisonous atmosphere.

The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.

My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.'

There was a 'Wired' cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, 'Pray.' I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it's going to just go out of business or be bought.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun.

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

Ese es mi mal. Soñar. La poesía Es la camisa férrea de mil puntas cruentas Que llevo sobre el alma. Las espinas sangrientas Dejan caer las gotas de mi melancolía.

Caught on the thorns of our joys as we run. Emily, Emily, child of the sun.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

First, there's the rose— the queen of the flowers; she's so beautiful and her fragrance is so intoxicating that it goes to everyone's head, most of all her own. The rose is beautiful, sweet-smelling and elegant, but if things aren't going her way, she shows her thorns. She's like a spoiled child—beautiful, elegant and seemingly nice as can be, but if you touch her or talk to someone else so that she's no longer the center of attention, out come her claws.

I]f I truly thought we had a chance to succeed…But the risk is too great. I've never been so hungry that I was willing to lick honey off thorns.

Sea rose canes bear thorns, just like their hybrid sisters

Lifting her head, blinking sweat from her lashes, she studied the vines on her right side, looking for a place with fever thorns.