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.

Dan Aykroyd

I'd make a bad preacher.

Barry White

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

J. C. Ryle

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

Martin Luther

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Martin Luther

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Miguel de Cervantes

He preaches well that lives well

Frederick Buechner

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

Michel de Montaigne

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.