Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Andrew Mason

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Corita Kent

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Andrew Lang

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Tite Kubo

My innocence is a dying flower

Pablo Casals

Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .

Alexandre Dumas

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

Jerry Spinelli

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

Harper Lee

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Ronald Reagan

Trees cause pollution.

John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

John Muir

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

John Steinbeck

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Jerry Bernstein

We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.

Jay Wright

The timing of this is incredible. I know it looks like we really planned this well.

Dan Brush

We talked to our members about it and they said, 'This sounds crazy,' but the more work we do, it looks like we can pull it off.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't really care about how I look.