Branches Quote by Lionel Shriver

“So sturdy and solid, so wide, so thick, none of that delicate wristy business of my imaginings. Built like an oak tree, against which…

— Lionel Shriver

“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.”

— Panache Desai

“Mother’s estate—our estate—a thousand acres centered in a million more. Lawns the size of small prairies with grass so perfect it beckoned a body…

— Dan Simmons

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

— Edward Hirsch

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

— John Banville

“Trees hang their branches”

— Allen Ginsberg

“When necessary bend like a willow, when necessary stand unbending like an oak.”

— K. Natwar Singh

“A trail made of pine needles and thistles leads you into the green darkness. The canopy casts shadows on old oaks and dogwoods, and…

— Kimberly Karalius

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday,…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Some of the trees hung their branches down almost as far as the surface, as if they were trying to stroke it with long…

— Sophie Cleverly

Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink…

— Thomas Gray

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow