Top 1200 Tree Branches Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Officers are not fruit. I can't pick them off a tree.

When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

As a child, I loved to climb on the tree, like a monkey.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate, so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.

The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

You can't ever make assumptions about a family tree.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree