Woods Quotes · Page 20

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things,…

— Victoria Alexander

“grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing”

— Jay Woodman

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields…

— Henry David Thoreau

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

— David Lynch

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

— Tim Conway

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

— Henry David Thoreau

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

— Dennis Miller

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

— Laozi

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front…

— Temple Grandin

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without…

— Bob Seger

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable…

— Robert Graves

Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought…

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with…

— Reginald Heber

Does Tiger Woods tee off at 8 A.M. when he's going to win a Masters? Does Floyd Mayweather fight the first fight…

— Alex Bregman

We're friends, and we're both friends with actresses our age, but we never get to work with each other because there's one…

— Ellen Page

We just haven't found Bigfoot because the world is big. And the woods are deep. The more TV shows that we can…

— Rob Huebel

There's a famous story about Dizzy [Gillespie] and Art Blakey taking him aside, and spending a whole night-long talk with [Phil Wood],…

— Jon Gordon

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit…

— David Hockney

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…

— Wendell Berry

But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and…

— Michael Finkel

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle…

— Joseph Addison

You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the…

— Peter Zumthor

So let me get this straight," he said. "After everything that's happened on this campus-the murder, the stalking, the kidnapping-you want to…

— Kate Brian

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

— Janine Turner

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers,

— Gloria Allred

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

— Horace

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble…

— John Dryden

“We are all out-on-loan to one another by God". ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark…

— Julia Caroline Dorr

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the…

— Lady Bird Johnson

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts…

— James F. Cooper

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different…

— Anonymous

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.

— Jim Fowler

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

— Jason Akermanis

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.

— Marc Platt

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place…

— Jason Reeves