Tree Quotes

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

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

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

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

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.