Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Henry Ward Beecher

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Henry Ward Beecher

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

John Knowles

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

John Knowles

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Kurt Cobain

We can plant a house, we can build a tree

Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Olive Schreiner

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

Octavia Butler

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Mahatma Gandhi

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.