Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick O'Brian

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

Patrick Rothfuss

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Lauren Oliver

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

Paul Merson

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

Paul Muldoon

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Margaret Atwood

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Margaret Atwood

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

Marc Bolan

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

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.

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

Monica Denise Brown

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

Terry Pratchett

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Shel Silverstein

And the tree was happy

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

Peter Falk

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

Julius Sterling Morton

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Ovadia Yosef

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

Margot Robbie

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