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- When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher
- It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family… — Gabrielle Hamilton
- You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis
- Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom… — Rabbi Akiva
- If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis
- The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson
- In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo
- If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish
- He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space… — Virginia Woolf
- My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis