Boughs Quotes

65 quotes by 53 authors

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were… — Dorothy Wordsworth
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches… — Francis Bacon
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind,… — Edwin Markham
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. — William C. Bryant
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller
But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you… — William Shakespeare
One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold… — Wallace Stevens
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,… — Diego Rivera
Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. — Andrew Marvell
Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For… — William Henry Davies
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer… — Andrew Young
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? — Lucy Larcom
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs. — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives… — Gaston Bachelard
...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... — John M. Geddes
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher

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