Top 1200 Palm Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down.

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, wed talk on the phone, and if I wasnt doing anything, Id fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

I was a star before I got more than $250 a week. Carole Lombard advised me how to get a raise. She said: 'Go to Palm Springs and stay there until they raise the ante.' They were waiting to start a picture with me and I was scared they'd forget me for someone else, but they came after me.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, a wealthy community, probably the wealthiest community there is in the world, I opened a club, and really got great credit for it. No discrimination against African- Americans, against Muslims, against anybody. And it's a tremendously successful club. And I'm so glad I did it.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.