a thistle QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place." Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow. "

3 " I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

4 " 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. "