Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

Jodi Picoult

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Jodi Picoult

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

Margaret Atwood

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Margaret Atwood

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

Marc Bolan

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

Lauren Oliver

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

Paul Merson

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

Paul Muldoon

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Nikki Sixx

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Mary McCarthy

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Nicholas Sparks

You can't see the forest for the trees.

P. L. Travers

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

P. G. Wodehouse

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

Matt Groening

I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

Masanobu Fukuoka

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

Mary Hunter Austin

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Michel de Montaigne

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

Markus Zusak

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Marilyn Manson

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

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.

James Patterson

Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom)

James Patterson

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang

Hermann Hesse

The tree does not die, it waits.

Hermann Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Henri Matisse

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Hilarie Burton

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

Hilarie Burton

I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.