Quotes by category:Tree

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own... by Stephen Moyer

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

tomatoes garden tree

What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

frogs tree trying

In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

Stephen Spender

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.

Stephen Jay Gould

tiny branches tree

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Stephen Vincent Benet

names tree people

You can't have the fruits without the roots. by Stephen Covey

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

fruit roots tree

When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.

Sterling W Sill

work tree years

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

Stephen Sondheim

cities tree country

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

losing-control tree talking

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

tree father thinking

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

learning tree knowledge

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

quality choices tree

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

backyards october tree

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hit... by Stephenie Meyer

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

Stephenie Meyer

running tree thinking

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

cutting tree believe

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave,... by Stephen King

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

shoes eggs tree

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see by Steve Miller

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see

love-you tree song

Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.

Steven Clark Rockefeller

tree culture way

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

rocks running tree

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

Steven J Lawson

easier would-be tree