Famous quotes containing the words thorn and/or grove:
“So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man’s bosom.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I can’t make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)