Timber Quotes

81 quotes by 75 authors

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like… — Pablo Neruda
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that… — Patrick Stewart
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. — Dag Hammarskjold
The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got… — Douglas Malloch
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant
In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with… — Miyamoto Musashi
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and… — Zora Neale Hurston
Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here… — Henry Miller
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed… — Jim Butcher
It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else,… — Daniel Handler
When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where… — Haruki Murakami
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts… — Homer
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of… — David Almond
A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber. — P.G. Wodehouse
Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage doorâ€”a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. â€œCarter… — Rick Riordan
Kissing Sinclair was like making out with a sexy timber wolfâ€” he was licking my fangs and nipping me lightly and growling under his breath… — MaryJanice Davidson
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick… — S E Hinton
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets… — Terry Pratchett

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