Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

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.

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)

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.

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.]