Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Bourgeois

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Matthieu Ricard

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Matthew McConaughey

The tree is known by his fruit.

Mary Stewart

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

Philip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;

Kurt Cobain

We can plant a house, we can build a tree

Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Emo Philips

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

John Knowles

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

John Knowles

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Olive Schreiner

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

Octavia Butler

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Tom Petty

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

Simon Sinek

Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

Rick Riordan

Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

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.'

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.

Peter Falk

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

Henry David Thoreau

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Henry David Thoreau

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

John Ray

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Shel Silverstein

And the tree was happy

Mechai Viravaidya

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Mechai Viravaidya

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree

Lucy Larcom

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.