Quotes by Tree I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.' Margo Martindale daymelighttree I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film. Marshall Curry viewthinktreepeople The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start. Mary Barra youwomenfamilytree If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree. Mary Gauthier willstartfamilytree But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. Mary Shelley i-ammyselfsoultree I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book. Mary Pope Osborne childimaginationtreechildren I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side. Meghan Daum roadyoutreewindow I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.' Michael Raymond-James thinkyoutreerelationship You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree. Michael Portillo neveryoutreelife After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten. Molly O'Keefe thanksgivingfamilychristmastree Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid climboceantreepeople Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you. Mike Phelan youdecisiontreefootball My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry. Michael Beck alwaysbuildingbrothertree I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family. Max Schneider youfamilyhometree We celebrated Christmas. Not religiously, but we did the tree and the lights. Hannukah always seemed not quite as thrilling - Sorry to my Jewish brothers and sisters! But when you're a kid, Santa and all that, you know, that really trumps the menorah. So we did Christmas. Matthew Broderick youchristmassorrytree Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple. Martin O'Malley plantingsimplecomplicatedtree You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever. Mark Shand downbackyoutree I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen? Peter Tosh memusicflowertree Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales. Peter Navarro meyouperspectivetree Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything? Pyotr Aven goodchildreadingtree«121122123124125126127128129130131»
