A Quote by Brandon Sanderson

You're a sword not a palm tree

Brandon Sanderson

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Palm Sword Tree

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Brandon Sanderson
American - Writer
Born: December 19, 1975

I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.

Isabella Bird

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

Ambrose Bierce

A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

Heinrich Heine

Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity - the Palm Beach Police Foundation - for his 'selfless support' of its cause. His support did not include any of his own money.

David Fahrenthold

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

David A. Siegel

I'm not sure I like the idea of polar bears under a palm tree.

Lenny Henry

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Pope Benedict XVI

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Samuel Rutherford

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Lincoln Kirstein

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

Jose Andres

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Philip Sidney

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Saib Tabrizi

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

Satish Kumar

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

Hugo Chavez

Will we forever live by our sword? We definitely will live with our sword. I don't think our children or grandchildren won't be soldiers. We must make efforts to try and not live only by our sword, but we will always be with a sword.