Famous Quotes & Sayings

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

Janet Evanovich

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

Cassandra Clare

Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

Frank Herbert

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Jesse Ventura

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

James Dickey

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.

Joseph Joubert

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Katherine Mansfield

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

Harry Nilsson

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'

J. P. Morgan

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

J. K. Rowling

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

H. P. Lovecraft

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

George Herbert

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

George Herbert

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

George Herbert

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Homer

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

James Boswell

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Jakob Nielsen

What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.

J. R. R. Tolkien

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

Pat Conroy

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Leonardo da Vinci

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Patrick O'Brian

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

Patrick Rothfuss

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Marilyn Ferguson

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Mikhail Gorbachev

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Publilius Syrus

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Neill Blomkamp

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

Neil Young

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Nhat Hanh

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.