Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

Monica Denise Brown

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

Peter Falk

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

Maggie Stiefvater

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

John Dryden

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

John Maeda

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Karen Joy Fowler

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Leonard Cohen

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Laurell K. Hamilton

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

John Keats

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

John Keats

Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

Julius Sterling Morton

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Ovadia Yosef

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

Margot Robbie

I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

Martin Luther

The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

Martin Luther

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Martin Luther

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Mark Tobey

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

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

Pat Conroy

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

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.

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.

P. L. Travers

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

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.