Bough Quotes

30 Bough quotes by 28 unique authors

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned… — Lewis Carroll
It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the… — Clinton Scollard
Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. — Gary Snyder
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered… — William Butler Yeats
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn. — Robert Lowell
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. — George Pope Morris
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers… — William Saroyan
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had… — Philipp Meyer
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be… — Henry Ward Beecher
Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? — Charles Spurgeon
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough. — Hugh Martin
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn… — William Allingham
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for… — D. H. Lawrence
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than… — Sara Teasdale
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. — Ezra Pound
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or… — Bram Stoker
I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from… — Dorothy Parker
When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall… — Sara Teasdale

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