Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Henry David Thoreau

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Florence King

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Henry Louis Gates

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Henry Louis Gates

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Henry Miller

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

Jacqueline Carey

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

George Harrison

All religions are branches of one big tree.

George Harrison

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

Francesca Lia Block

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Jeremy Sumpter

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

George Herbert

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

George W. Bush

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

George Orwell

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

Gene Simmons

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too...

Fanny Kemble

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

Ezra Pound

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Eve Ensler

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

Gregory Maguire

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Homaro Cantu

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

Hosea Ballou

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

The windows, the roof. There's a tree in my house.

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.

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.