Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

Ian Hamilton Finlay

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Florence King

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Henry Louis Gates

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Henry Louis Gates

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Henry Miller

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Jacqueline Carey

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

George Harrison

All religions are branches of one big tree.

George Harrison

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

George Herbert

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

George W. Bush

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

George Orwell

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

Jeremy Sumpter

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

Gregory Maguire

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Homaro Cantu

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

Hosea Ballou

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Gene Simmons

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too...

Fanny Kemble

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

Ezra Pound

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Eve Ensler

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

The windows, the roof. There's a tree in my house.

Dogen

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Dogen

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Stephen Jay Gould

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

Sherwood Anderson

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)

Mircea Eliade

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

Sidney Lanier

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.