Tree Quotes

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To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. — Andrew Cohen
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive… — Richard Harris
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in… — James Irwin
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth… — William Alexander
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. — Douglas Hyde
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest… — Arthur Middleton
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. — Thomas Dekker
When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over. — John Lone
The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in… — Robert Fortune
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. — Jim Woodring
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The… — Patrick White
Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level… — John Hull
Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached… — John Hull
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a… — Moshe Dayan
On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of… — George Grey
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active… — James Weldon Johnson
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting. — Bruce Beresford
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. — James Stephens
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. — James Douglas
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. — Adlai Stevenson

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