Woods Quotes · Page 21

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

— Alexander Hamilton

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

— Samuel Rutherford

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

— Martin Luther

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

— William Butler Yeats

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

— Frankie Boyle

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

— Richard Louv

“The Kingdom of God is the already but not yet". ~R. Alan Woods [1998]”

— R. Alan Woods

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

— William C. Bryant

In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into…

— Bill Maher

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as…

— Randy Johnson

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and…

— Shirley Jackson

Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of…

— Robert Graves

After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the…

— Bill McKibben

I also met Charles McPherson around that time, end of high school. I was 17 and I had followed Phil around for…

— Jon Gordon

Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the…

— Sidney Lanier

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more…

— Les Paul

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around…

— Matt Groening

“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths…

— D. H. Lawrence

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of…

— Henry David Thoreau

"Dollhouse" was really insane. We shot it at this top house studio in Brookyln. It was really cool. I designed a mini…

— Melanie Martinez

Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?"…

— Robertson Davies

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult…

— Henry David Thoreau

Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless…

— Jane Kenyon

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

— Nigella Lawson

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

— Bertolt Brecht

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

— Hosea Ballou

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

— Jane Yolen

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

— Peter Kreeft

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget…

— Jack White

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!'…

— Jeff Beck

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

— John Cage

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

— Carl Andre

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

— Plutarch

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it…

— Rachel McAdams

Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's…

— Walter Scott

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

— Art Buchwald

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

— Anne Ursu

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

— John Burroughs