Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Robert Graves

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Robert Jordan

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

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.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

William Cowper

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

Tyson Chandler

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

Tyra Banks

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

Ty Pennington

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

Ronald Reagan

Trees cause pollution.

Ronald Reagan

More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

Stonewall Jackson

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

Monica Denise Brown

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

Peter Falk

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Suzanne Collins

Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Shel Silverstein

And the tree was happy

Steven Wright

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me -- and I didn't hear it.

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.

Sylvia Plath

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

Rumi

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.