Tree Quotes · Page 23

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

— Osbert Sitwell

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

— Anonymous

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

— Pablo Neruda

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

— Priyanka Chopra

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

— Henry Ward Beecher

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

— John Lyly

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

— Virginia Woolf

“A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like…

— Dorothy Wordsworth

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.

— Sylvia Plath

“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.”

— Suzy Kassem

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when…

— Grandma Moses

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower.…

— Paul Cezanne

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I remember girls watching it in high school, and I thought the basketball part of the show was cool. And lo and…

— Stephen Colletti

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was…

— Emily Carr

When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse.…

— Joseph Sittler

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three…

— Paul Auster

When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed…

— Chris Cleave

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle…

— Enid Blyton

And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything…

— Leonard Jacobson

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Jodi Picoult

As a child, I loved to climb on the tree, like a monkey.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

— Thomas Campbell

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

— Anonymous

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

— Douglas Wilson

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

— Felix Dennis

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

— Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

— Cecil Rhodes

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

— Rabindranath Tagore

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

— Alexandre Dumas

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

— Sylvia Plath

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

— Brian Posehn

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

— Johnny Weissmuller