Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

Bill Bryson

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

William Shakespeare

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie...

E. F. Schumacher

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Barry Manilow

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Charles Bukowski

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Aesop

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Dalai Lama

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Dalai Lama

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

Doris Lessing

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

Ben Harper

What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn

Louis C. K.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

Julian Casablancas

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Emily Wood

I was thankful I had an MRE to eat; I had a smelly, stinky room from all the water, but at least I had a roof over my head.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Albert Einstein

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

James Simpson

They are on the roof and need a chopper.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

Natalie Clifford Barney

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.