Tree Quotes - Page 83

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.

No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".

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.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

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

Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I’m driving my car! (Tory)

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy.