Top 1200 Old Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

The old Logan was plain old insensitive.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

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.

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

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

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

I rode a horse into a tree. I did. But I'm okay. Horses are naturally meant to avoid trees. This one didn't.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

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

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

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.

I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

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

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I want to find more ways of planting trees and helping fight against deforestation.

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such as CGI, or editing that changes the speed.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

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

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.