Quotes by category:Tree

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

dancing done tree

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

roots tree giving

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

space gone tree

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

Nicole Williams

cutting hurt tree

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

Nikephoros of Chios

god-love tree men

And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

Nicholas Sparks

notebook summer tree

You can't see the forest for the trees. by Nicholas Sparks

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Nicholas Sparks

forests-and-trees forests tree

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

problem decision tree

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

naked sitting tree

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the... by Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Nikos Kazantzakis

almonds faith tree

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

Nikos Kazantzakis

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

wine heart tree

Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

purpose practice tree

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

example opportunity tree

My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park that I see as a model: Dover Street Park in Oakland. They took this park that has swings and playground-type things and turned it into a farm. There's not chickens, just annual vegetables interspersed with fruit trees. And it's super cool because you see people playing with their kids and then they go pick raspberries and some greens for dinner.

Novella Carpenter

tree kids people

The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

water-of-life tree men

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell... by Obert Skye

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

bored tree trying

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

light tree world

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows. by Octavia Butler

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

shadow parent tree

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Odysseas Elytis

poetry tree country