Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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

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.

Casey Affleck

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

William Shakespeare

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Edwin Louis Cole

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Bill O'Reilly

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Charles Bukowski

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Ben Harper

What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn

Doris Lessing

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

Aesop

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Dalai Lama

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Dalai Lama

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

Louis C. K.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

Barry Manilow

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Joni Mitchell

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Albert Einstein

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Emily Wood

I was thankful I had an MRE to eat; I had a smelly, stinky room from all the water, but at least I had a roof over my head.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Rick Reed

At the end of the day, we're saving the world one roof at a time.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

James Simpson

They are on the roof and need a chopper.