Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Hill

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Hilarie Burton

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

Hilarie Burton

I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Henry Ward Beecher

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

Steven Wright

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me -- and I didn't hear it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Nikki Sixx

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

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).

John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

John Muir

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

John Steinbeck

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Martin Luther

The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

Martin Luther

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Martin Luther

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Mark Tobey

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

Eckhart Tolle

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease..

Hermann Hesse

The tree does not die, it waits.

Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Henri Matisse

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

George Gaylord Simpson

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Louis Sachar

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.