Top 1200 Tree Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

But only God can make a tree.

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.

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

The tree does not die, it waits.

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

The tree is known by his fruit.

The rigid tree will be felled.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

A single tree doesn't make a forest.

Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and some day, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down, for caring enough about me to hurt me. Thank you, Mr. Gardener.’

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.

Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

What do you say to a guy that says a tree's sexy.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

In golf I am one under; one under a tree, one under a rock, and one under a bush.

My favorite book was 'The Giving Tree.'

I fell in love underneath a tree.

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.