Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme;…
— William Shakespeare
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Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me…
— Toni Morrison
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...Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He wasn't really hard…
— David Eddings
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At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that…
— Alain de Botton
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I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home.…
— Cecelia Ahern
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People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.
— Tom Robbins
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Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people.…
— George R. R. Martin
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Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire…
— Sara Teasdale
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As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright…
— Sara Teasdale
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The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
— Virginia Woolf
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I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
— Virginia Woolf
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All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities…
— Patricia Briggs
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I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You…
— Deb Caletti
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like…
— Rajneesh
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I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said…
— Enid Blyton
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Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm…
— Jack Gilbert
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He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them…
— Claire LaZebnik
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