Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;

Mechai Viravaidya

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Mechai Viravaidya

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree

Matthieu Ricard

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Marilyn Manson

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

John Ray

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Louise Bourgeois

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Henry David Thoreau

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Henry David Thoreau

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Emo Philips

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

George Gaylord Simpson

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Louis Sachar

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Ray Davies

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

Thomas Jefferson

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Robert Herrick

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

Robert Henri

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Robert Henri

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

Sylvia Pankhurst

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Stephen King

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

Stephen King

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

William Wordsworth

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

William Shenstone

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

William Shatner

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

William Faulkner

Caddy smelled like trees.

Willem de Kooning

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.