Top 1200 Oak Tree Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

After a sapling is planted, care should be taken on how it will survive and grow into a tree.

Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

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.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.