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Quotes About Thorn

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
~ Neil Young
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
~ Sarah MacLean
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
~ Ovid
The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
He had a sudden longing, which wasn't a bit like him now, though it was like the person he had been before the Saxons burned his home, to give Ness things, to bring them and heap them into her lap. New songs and the three stars of Orion's belt, and honey-in-the-comb, and branches of white flowering thorn at mid-winter . . .
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Aquel que no se atreve a agarrar la espina no debería ansiar la rosa.
~ Anne Bronte
Colui che non osa toccare la spina, non dovrebbe mai desiderare la rosa.
~ Anne Bronte
And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You seriously lack people skills. (Fang) And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. (Thorn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It looks like a typical voodoo sacrifice. (Fang) Well, slap my ass and call me Sally if you're not bright. (Thorn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn "Every rose has its thorn?" Jo "Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No surname? Or is Thorn it?" "Thorn is all anyone needs to know about me." "As in thorn up all our collective nether regions," Devyl muttered.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach butterflies before a fight. "I plan to be subtle," he said. Gilan looked at him, his head tilted curiously. "How's that?" "Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them." "You have a strange concept of subtle," Gilan said. Thorn's grin grew wider, "So I've been told.
~ John Flanagan
Nothing like a little wanton destruction to get boys excited, Thorn thought, smiling to himself.
~ John Flanagan
Thorn!" he said, distracted by the other man's rifling through his belongings. "Are you looking for something in particular, or just planning on robbing me blind?" "You had three or four Gallican shields," Thorn replied. "Thought you might contribute one to the boy. They've issued him the wheel off an oxcart.
~ John Flanagan
That's a snug fit," Thorn said. "What did you line it with?" "Oh, leather and some sheepskin," Hal said distractedly. He failed to notice Thorn's sharp look as he said sheepskin.
~ John Flanagan
A thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the 'Pilgrim's Progress'.
~ George Eliot
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
~ Johann Martin Usteri
Watch. He is her dog. She took the thorn out of his foot.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Nah, if she's the rose, he can be her thorn." Calo snapped his fingers. "The Thorn of Camorr! Now, that's got some shine to it!" "That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard," said Locke.
~ Scott Lynch
Memories are a bane, little bird, like a thorn lodged in your eye. Cut them out, if you can, or they'll do nothing but haunt you in your dotage.
~ Scott Oden
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
~ William Blake
Thorn looks scrawny, but he's wily, and as fast as a ferret.
~ Erin Hunter
Boulder stretched out one forepaw. "I've got a thorn in it," he announced cheerfully.
~ Erin Hunter