Thorn Bush Quotes

#1. Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

William Golding

#2. It was like being pleased y a thorn bush, feeling fond of every prickle. Another second and he was going to say something ridiculous like that.

C.S. Pacat

#3. Dropping into a thorn bush can lead to no end of grief.

Mark Lawrence

#4. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

Felix Adler

#5. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

LeCrae

#6. Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#7. To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond ... You - what have you done?

Josemaria Escriva

#8. I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

John Bachman

#9. Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

Billy Graham

#10. This move is called Qworegoys,
and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.

Lisa Scottoline

#12. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Maya Angelou

#13. The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

Mini Grey

#14. If anyone had said to him, "Would you like to be better off?" he would have replied: "No." If God had said to him: "Would you like heaven itself in exchange?" he would have replied, "I would be the loser.

Victor Hugo

#15. She's been on more laps than a napkin.

Walter Winchell

#16. Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.

Spurgeon, Charles H.

#17. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

Omar Khayyam

#18. The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.

Rachel Caine