Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

Bill Engvall

I was a dork hunter. That's hard to do. I fell out of a tree.

C. S. Lewis

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Carl Sagan

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

Bill Bryson

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

Anton LaVey

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Al Gore

Plant trees, Lots of trees

Charles Darwin

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Alana Beard

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

Carson McCullers

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

Deepak Chopra

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Dave Ramsey

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

David Irving

History is like a constantly changing tree.

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Brandon Sanderson

You're a sword not a palm tree

Barbara Kingsolver

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Bashar al-Assad

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

Art Spiegelman

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

Albert Schweitzer

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Liam Gallagher

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

Le Corbusier

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Albert Einstein

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Alcaeus

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Aldo Leopold

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

Aldo Leopold

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

Adam Ross

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

Alexander Smith

Trees are your best antiques

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.