Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sherwood Anderson

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)

Mircea Eliade

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

John Ruskin

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Marilyn Manson

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

Michel de Montaigne

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

Claire Danes

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.