Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Elizabeth I

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good 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.

Charles Fort

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

Charles Bukowski

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

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.

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.

Alexander Smith

Trees are your best antiques

Adam Ross

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

Andrew Marvell

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

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.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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?

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.