Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

John Fletcher

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Kate Voegele

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

Peter Lynch

Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.

Prince

Trees are worth more alive than dead

Plutarch

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.

Philip Yancey

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

Natsuki Takaya

♪Kyo-kun and Tohru sitting in a tree... K-I-S...♪ - Shigure Sohma

Margot Robbie

I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

Martin Buber

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Martin Buber

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Jim Woodring

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

John Heywood

All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

Karen Joy Fowler

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Leonard Cohen

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Laurell K. Hamilton

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

John Keats

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

John Keats

Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

Lori Foster

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Gavin Newsom

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

Freya Stark

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

John Dryden

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

John Maeda

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Jim Rohn

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

Jim Rohn

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

Sylvester Stallone

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Ray Davies

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Thomas Jefferson

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.