Tree Quotes · Page 33

I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will…

— John Muir

Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there,…

— Francois Fenelon

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must…

— Angelina Jolie

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our…

— James Thurber

“If an hour has passed and the tree’s still standing, it’s probably not the saw that’s the problem.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

— Suzanne Collins

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

— Reinaldo Arenas

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to…

— Henry Louis Gates

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped…

— Jill McCorkle

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

— Christina Rossetti

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

— Wallace Stevens

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a…

— Truman Capote

My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up…

— Harry Callahan

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

— A. E. Housman

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

— Chanakya

And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you…

— Nicholas Sparks

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are…

— Pablo Picasso

The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can…

— William Butler Yeats

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts…

— Gerald Brenan

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

— George Ade