Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Lanier

Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

Michel de Montaigne

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

Markus Zusak

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Marilyn Manson

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

John Ruskin

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

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.

Jodi Picoult

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Jodi Picoult

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

P. L. Travers

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

P. G. Wodehouse

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Hannah More

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Greg Fitzsimmons

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

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

H. P. Lovecraft

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

George Herbert

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

George Herbert

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

George Herbert

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

Francesca Lia Block

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Joseph Joubert

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Homer

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

Steven Morrissey

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

Robert Browning

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

Richard Hammond

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you

Samuel Alexander

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.