Tree Quotes - Page 74

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

I fell in love underneath a tree.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

If we are ever truly going to find purpose and meaning in our lives, we first have to rise above the trees to rediscover the forest - we have to understand what God is doing in the world and how we fit in.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.