Lumber Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age…
— Jim Bishop
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a…
— Charles Dickens
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Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the…
— Gordie Howe
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago…
— Hermann Kolbe
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A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as…
— Clinton Presba Anderson
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
— David McCullough
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People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree…
— Roger Swain
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Dead we become the lumber of the world.
— John Wilmot
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
— Frances E. Willard
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Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to…
— Alexander Pope
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If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
— Neil S. Plakcy
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The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged…
— Robert Jensen
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My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is…
— Steve Miller
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Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood…
— Paul Cellucci
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I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but…
— Aldo Leopold
Who Wrote These Lumber Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 35 Lumber Quotes, led by these top contributors: