Tree Quotes

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

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

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

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

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

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'