Tree Quotes

Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.

Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.

We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.