The palm trees on the median swayed and bent, threatening…

“They are strange trees, palm trees, they are so individualistic, so unique, so full of capriciousness, just as Jews are. One palm tree appears…

— Dvorah Telushkin Master of Dreams A Memoir of Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 2004

“A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors…

— Victoria Kahler

“So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the bays, and…

— Janet Frame

“There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of…

— Eoin Colfer

It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.

— Patty Jenkins

“There were some hours to spare before his ship sailed, and having deposited his luggage, including a locked leather despatch-case, on board, he lunched…

— E.F. Benson

“Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.”

— Lisa See

I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The time came around where the label was like, "Well, if you want something to come out in early 2017, it's going to have…

— Mac DeMarco

“In the landscape of my native land, a stranger in my own fields, --I had a homeland where the Duero flows between gray cliffs…

— Antonio Machado

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Christy dug her hand deeper into her shoulder bag. Scanning the papers she finally located there, she found no phone numbers or addresses listed.…

— Robin Jones Gunn

I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I had an…

— Udo Kier

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.

— Greg Lake

Some beach somewhere, theres a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growing, warm breezes blowing. I picture myself there,…

— Anonymous