"The thing about happiness is that it doesn`t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I`m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I`ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me."
- Lana Turner(on filming Rescue Dawn (2006) in Thailand) We`d be walking barefoot through jungle no one has ever walked through, with thorns and snakes and whatever. Sometimes Christian (Christian Bale) and I would just sit on a rice paddy and laugh, like, "Can you believe this?" It was intense. I`d need a 12-pack in the backyard and a full five hours to tell all the stories.
- Steve ZahnHe`s groaning under a crown of thorns.
- Dashiell HammettProblems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
- Hugh MillerIf you scatter thorns, don`t go barefoot.
- Abraham TwerskiSome people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Ajibike AkinkoyeAt every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
- Albrecht DurerBlue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Oh, this would be so much easier if I wasn`t color-blind!
- Andrew WeremyDo not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.
- Andy SegalYou can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses
- Andy TrotterI will not wear a crown of gold where my Savior wore one of thorns
- Aram AharonianLean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns
- Tehyi Hsieh