Top 1200 Tree Limbs Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

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

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs. Having these Four Beginnings, but saying that they cannot develop them is to destroy themselves.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

The Salvation Army do a lot more than sit around the Christmas tree with a band.

I like to position a cat tree in the window so the cats can look outside and feel the sunlight.

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

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

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

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

What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

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

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

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

I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'

Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.