Tree Quotes - Page 77

When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

I'd like to tour with the Backstreet Boys because I love them so much.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

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.

Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom)

An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.

He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

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

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.