Thistle Quotes

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire. — Rumi

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. — Joanna Newsom

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. — Abraham Lincoln

Through his suffering, he peers into the core of things and sees that the judgment of man is thistle-down in the wind. — Stephen Crane

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary

Common thistle is everywhere," she said. "Which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I am just a thistle. — Logospilgrim

I'm more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

If you were a plant, you would be a thistle ~ Caleb — C.J. Roberts

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root. — Kingsley Amis

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick — John Arlott

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. — Abraham Lincoln

Welcome to Thistle Bend
Wildflower Capital of Colorado — Tracy March

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. — William Morris

And had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle ... — Terry Pratchett

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. — James Thomas Fields

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett