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.

Brian Eno

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Damien Hirst

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Cornelia Funke

Words are immortal - Elinor

Atharva Veda

We are birds, O camel-like mind; the Lord, the Immortal Primal Being, is the tree.

William Shakespeare

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

Henry Vaughan

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Livy

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.