Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
— Daniel Handler
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Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens…
— Lauren Oliver
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with…
— Christina Rossetti
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The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.…
— Ilona Andrews
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Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.…
— Ali Smith
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My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against…
— Melina Marchetta
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I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would…
— Aime Cesaire
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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and…
— Mark Twain
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...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks,…
— Roald Dahl
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting…
— Victor Hugo
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The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
— Khalil Gibran
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He smiled his dimpled smile. "Well, I've found something in my heart, my love, and it's you. You fill it up so completely that I…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of…
— Lord Byron
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Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made…
— Dr. Seuss
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