Top 942 Olive Branches Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

There is a Mediterranean feel to my colouring. I have olive skin, brown eyes and my nose is definitely Gallic. It's extremely Roman in profile.

I'm half Italian, and on my mom's side, they've aged amazingly, and all they've put on their faces is olive oil.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

I feed the branches of the people.

Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

I love a bit of arugula tossed in olive oil and pepper over it to just have something nice and fresh and green.

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Olive oil mixed with raw sugar makes for an excellent lip scrub.

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

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

Olive oil is the cornerstone of Mediterranean cuisine. This tree is the thread from which the tapestry of the Med has been woven.

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

I found olive oil and grated cheese all over my bed. I picked up my comforter, and it was on my sheets, my pillow.

Technically, my husband and I are residents of the Alpes-Maritimes, where we are tucked away on our olive farm overlooking the Bay of Cannes in a corner that is, as yet, rather undiscovered.

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.

When summer squash is freshly picked, all it needs is a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe a hit of lemon juice.

They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

There are more than 800 different types of olive tree and each region has its own varieties, creating unique flavours.

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

Jerusalem sits on a hill surrounded by valleys. It is a dry, craggy region but ideal for olive trees, which require minimal irrigation.