Inspirational Quote by Sadiqua Hamdan

“olive trees. As I looked closer at them I wondered if they had escaped; their trunks and roots were so gnarled and scarred it…

— Giacomo Giammatteo

“He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.”

— Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

“It may be an olive branch that was still attached to a tree. A twisted tree which rotted from the inside out.”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no…

— Cesare Pavese

“You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn’t eat its own…

— Hayley DiMarco

“Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.”

— Vagabond

“…and I remember a sad breeze through the olive trees.”

— Federico García Lorca

“…the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.”

— Laurie Beth Jones

“A tree that bears much fruit honors the one who planted it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides