Trees Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image ““An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.”” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Trees
“The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
“At first I thought I'd walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The tree had been dead a long time, but it seemed to live again in the fire” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“I think she fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.” — Lorna Seilstad Copy Share Image
“For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceans burned.” — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“The trees out there are like people, she thought: they might be clad in scintillating brilliance, yet underneath they are miserable, impoverished, frozen. What… — Jacob G. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“There are things in the wood, things you wouldn't expect. There's a laugh behind a tree when nobody's around to make it. A flash… — Rebecca Hahn Copy Share Image
“Then the trees closed in around her, black as pitch and full of ghosts and memories.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to… — Roberto Clemente Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image