Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Whitcomb Riley

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

William Shakespeare

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Cheryl Strayed

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Chanakya

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Charlaine Harris

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

Charlaine Harris

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

Charles M. Schulz

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

Bob Ross

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

Bob Ross

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

Bill Maher

'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses.

Bob Seger

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

We're getting a lot of live wires or wires in the backyards that are arcing on tree branches.

Bill O'Reilly

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Bill Nye

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Bertolt Brecht

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Casey Affleck

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Carl Jung

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

It will look like the tree and waterfall have been here together.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Dr. Seuss

I speak for the trees!

Dr. Seuss

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Dr. Seuss

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Dorothy Dunnett

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.

Donald Miller

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.