Famous Quotes & Sayings

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Wangari Maathai

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Zac Hanson

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Bob Williams

I think we're still waiting for that to emerge.

Mike Trapasso

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Ann Gard

I was waiting for it. At that time, telegrams were so prominent.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

Tyler Hoechlin

Some things are worth the wait.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

One rarely does well what one rarely does.