Believe Quote by David Foster Wallace

“De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part…

— David Foster Wallace

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage…

— Bill Vaughan

A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building

— John Adams

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to…

— Walter Bagehot

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

— Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who…

— Anandamayi Ma

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

— Johnny Carson

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

— Jennifer Granholm

If we were given a leaf for every lie that was told to us, we would be a tree......ER

— Eddie Rothschild

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not…

— Hermann Hesse

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

— Ariel Sharon

“You have to believe in God to believe in trees.”

— R. A. Nelson