Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Jeffs

If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.

Tori Amos

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Richard Baxter

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Timothy Leary

The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Robert Barry

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Ricki Lake

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

Robin McKinley

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Samuel Rutherford

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

Washington Irving

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

William Boyd

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

William C. Bryant

The groves were God's first temples.

Walter Savage Landor

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

Walter Scott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

Zora Neale Hurston

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

Zac Hanson

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Zac Hanson

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Virginia Woolf

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

Virginia Woolf

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

William Blake

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

Weegee

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

Wangari Maathai

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

Wangari Maathai

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Wangari Maathai

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

Terry Pratchett

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.