Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.
I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
Polly Hall was thirteen but wore enough makeup to rival a 40-year-old whore.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
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.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
He sang “I wish I weren’t me” over and over again just flat of the key of love until he forgot the words and could only hum along. Everyday was the same. The same stupid smile on the same stupid boy. Until the days blurred into a haze and the b...
I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies...they would rather look upon the mural of t...
Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.
Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
