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.

Charlie Chaplin

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

Bonnie Raitt

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

Ron Jaworski

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

Mona Sutphen

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

Larry Rice

I think the most relevant thing is the market was down 120 yesterday. I think we're going to have a knee jerk reaction back up.

Bill Burr

Don't be a jerk to other comics and don't let the business beat you down, stay positive and if you work your ass off you're going to get somewhere.

Bill Hicks

Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

David Letterman

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

Carolyn See

There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.