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.

William Wordsworth

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

William Shenstone

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

William Shatner

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Tori Amos

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Samuel Rutherford

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

Carl Jung

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Rob Zombie

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

Richard Baxter

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Rebecca West

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Russell Brand

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Russell Brand

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Ronnie Dunn

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Marshall McLuhan

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Patrick McGoohan

We all live in a little Village,

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.