Tree Quotes

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

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

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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

In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.