Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Cheryl Strayed

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Chanakya

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Charlaine Harris

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

Alan Tudyk

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

Richard G. Scott

Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.

David Denby

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Britney Spears

I have no sugar. I don't eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice.

Juvenal

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

Beth Moore

Whatever crisis you are going through, fruit will come from it. Allow the crisis to bring fruit.

Glen Loyd

When we first saw this it looked like a soft drink, it's got fruit on it. Even when you take the top off and smell it, it smells like a fruit drink.

Bill Johnson

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

Charles Stanley

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Edwin Louis Cole

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.