Quotes by category:Tree

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to r... by Lincoln Kirstein

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Lincoln Kirstein

ballet tree inspirational

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

Lincoln Steffens

jumping tree men

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pas... by Lewis Carroll

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

doe running tree

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

Leonardo da Vinci

vines tree fall

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts. by Lisa Ann Sandell

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

Lisa Ann Sandell

brotherhood ghost tree

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

curls tree morning

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

cheesy land tree

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

bravery courage tree

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

elephants body tree

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

different house tree

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

done tree civilization

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

wisdom tree life

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

knuckles want tree

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Louis de Bernieres

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree. by Lorrie Moore

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.

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!

python feet tree

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

lonely sky tree

The bark on the tree was just a little softer. by Louis Sachar

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

holes tree littles