Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 Ferguson

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Mikhail Gorbachev

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Publilius Syrus

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Margaret Atwood

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

Marc Bolan

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

Leonardo da Vinci

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Patrick O'Brian

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

Patrick Rothfuss

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

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.

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.

Katherine Mansfield

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

Sidney Lanier

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.

Sidney Lanier

Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

John Muir

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

John Steinbeck

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Sherwood Anderson

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)

Mircea Eliade

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

John Ruskin

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Matthew McConaughey

The tree is known by his fruit.

Mary Stewart

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.