Quotes About Thorns

Yellowfang crouched among the thorns with Deerleap on one

The spelling mistakes were interwoven one with the other, and Emma followed the kindly thought that cackled right through it like a hen half hidden in the hedge of thorns.

For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

The fruit of sin is thorns—spiny, prickly, cutting thorns. I emphasize the "point" of the thorns to suggest a point you may have never considered: if the fruit of sin is thorns, isn't the thorny crown on Christ's brow a picture of the fruit of our sin that pierced his heart?

Throughout Scripture thorns symbolize, not sin, but the consequence of sin. Remember

It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great surprize to discover that Mr. Wyvern had been asleep for a hundred years or so. 'Well, I shall not mind that so much,' he thought, 'so long as I am not expected to kiss him.

And I wondered if the oak could steal the DNA pattern from thorns and incorporate them into its own DNA. Some plants could do that.

The day when people once again die from the scratch of a rose thorn may not be far away.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns.Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.

Algunas personas se quejan de que las rosas tienen espinas. Yo estoy agradecido de que las espinas tengan rosas. ALPHONSE KARR, AUTOR

Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.

But roses! Even through winter they persisted, bare and thorny, like angry old women crouched in the cold.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

I joy that Death is this Democrat; and hopeless of all other real and permanent democracies, still hug the thought, that though in life some heads are crowned with gold, and some bound round with thorns, yet chisel them how they will, head-stones are all alike.

I mean to have you, Rose, you and all of your thorns. I'm a disagreeable and stubborn bastard, but I'm not a fool. You didn't really expect me to pass you up, did you?

a dense wall of greenery bordered it, ...an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty's evil witch weep with jealousy.

Just outside the hall, a bevy of youths and maidens sat waiting demurely for the serious business of the gathering to be concluded. They were garlanded in rose-vines, the thorns of which had provocatively pricked their faultless skins, conjuring aromatic gems that beaded redly upon the surface. As we passed them, Beth and I made a sacred genuflection, because we knew the significance of their presence.