Tree Quotes

4223 quotes by 2276 authors

Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all… — Lewis Carroll
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a… — Afeni Shakur
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like… — Ian Shoales
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as… — Walter Lippmann
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains… — Virginia Woolf
My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me. — William Kamkwamba
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the… — Gore Vidal
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. — Saul Bellow
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. — Michael Dolan
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
Water the fruit trees and donâ€™t water the thorns. — Unknown Author
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden.… — Greg Peterson
God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees. — Unknown Author
The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. — John Naka
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and… — Paul Valery
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible!… — Andre Gide
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. — Woodrow Wilson

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