Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2389 authors
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A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one,…
— Pablo Picasso
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It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the…
— Anthony Kiedis
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You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?"…
— Karen Hawkins
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All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work…
— Melina Marchetta
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the…
— Eudora Welty
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Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp…
— Denise Levertov
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Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
— Stephen King
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You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I…
— T.E. Lawrence
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To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you…
— Muhammad Yunus
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You look different now. Like a proper little girl," said Gendry. "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," said Arya. "Nice,…
— George R. R. Martin
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What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!
— Dan Brown
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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
— A A Milne
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A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
— Amelia Earhart
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Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me…
— Margaret Atwood
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God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her…
— Amin Maalouf
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Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for…
— Eoin Colfer
Who Wrote These Tree Quotes
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