Top 1200 Bare Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

Actually, being a hero is not easy. You have to dance around trees, not to mention all the odd and unnatural things you have to do.

This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?

One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

In 'Saami,' I take a poor dhobi's son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally he points to the boy's bare body. Immediately, I tear the furnishings off the office chair to convert them into clothes for the boy.

Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it.

A sleepy smile pulled at my lips as I rolled onto my stomach, stretching my legs out and pointing my toes. The sheets slipped over my bare skin and ended up somewhere at the foot of my bed. There was either a perverted ghost in my bedroom or Cam was wide awake.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers.

When everybody's looking at you, it does your head in. When you're always on the inside, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.

Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

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

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

I grew up in New York City, so I have, like, an inherent fear of trees, I think, in general.