Woods Quotes · Page 22

It's important for us as a family to go and sit in the woods sometimes.

— Stella McCartney

No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.

— Junior Seau

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

— Greg Lynn

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess…

— B. Wayne Hughes

You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save…

— Alex Steffen

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright…

— George MacDonald

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks…

— Jeff Foxworthy

We were running around in the woods telling stories and putting on costumes. We're terrible actors, but we acted in everything that…

— Matt Duffer

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was…

— Dan Jenkins

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing…

— Mary Russell Mitford

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring,…

— Alfred Austin

What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and…

— Susan Fenimore Cooper

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the…

— Thomas Merton

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric,…

— Pablo Picasso

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you…

— Jordan Peele

The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never…

— John Clare

My view on global warming is that it's a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly…

— Don Imus

I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I…

— Pete Seeger

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

— John Dewey

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

— Ray Mears

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

— George Bernard Shaw

“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”

— John James Audubon

“I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.”

— Jennifer Lynch

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

— Roger Deakin

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

— Ernest Hemingway

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

— Benjamin Hoff

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

— Khalil Gibran

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...

— Henry David Thoreau

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

— George Ade

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

— Mark Wahlberg

Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.

— Jon Gordon

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

— Bernard of Clairvaux