Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter de La Mare

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Walter de La Mare

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

Virginia Woolf

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

Virginia Woolf

It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

Virginia Woolf

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Virginia Woolf

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Virginia Woolf

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Virginia Woolf

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

Virginia Woolf

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

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?

Bill Engvall

I was a dork hunter. That's hard to do. I fell out of a tree.

C. S. Lewis

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

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.

Jesse Ventura

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.