Thorn Bushes Quotes & Sayings

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others — John Locke

Are you a little tipsy, Vivian? It doesn't look like you're walking too straight." "No, I'm just artificially confident and chemically relaxed. — Jewel E. Ann

There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw. And she runs into thorn bushes. And she's getting tangled up in it because she's running fast. But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won't get tangled and caught. There's something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone's chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away. — Christopher Bollen

Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed. — Steve Largent

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. — Douglas MacArthur

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it. — Barbara Sher

If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flower with thorn?
even a flower with thorns.
then what's the good of thorns? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped. — Laozi

And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me. — Anonymous

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses. — Tom Wilson

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln

I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap, — Chetan Bhagat

I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn't. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted. — Ford Madox Ford

Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thought will not work except in silence. — Thomas Carlyle

I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn. — Laura Lam

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
Faces of people streaming across my gaze. — D.H. Lawrence