Quotes of: Tree-of-life Keyword

Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.

Al R. Young

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

Bruce Beresford

Good and Bad shape your soul like the Light and Shadow shape the tree's

Urbanky Aurel Petru

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Vikram Seth

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

William Blake

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

William Law

Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

Walter de La Mare

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Walt Whitman

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees so invariably that one has to come to think of them as the attire of cherry blossoms; there were no bus...

Confessions of a Mask

Despite the sale of millions of copies of "How to.." books and programmes each year, very few people take actions and put what they learn into practice. Here´s why. The "how to..." book has usually been written by someone who accomplished something ...

Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he ...

Down and Out in Paris and London

That was the Old Man’s favorite song. “Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where the Old Man was to hang, way out from it. But they sang it loud and clear…. Blow ye trumpet blow Blow ye trumpet blow…. Yo...

The Good Lord Bird

It was getting dark by the time I went out, and nobody who knows the country will need to be told how black is the darkness of a November night under high laurel bushes and yew-trees. I walked into the heart of the shrubberies two or three times, not...

The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when they find out you want to do something other than sweep the kitchen or cut up vegetables. Had this big starch mango tree when I was small. Anytime I...

Rune Mathura and the Case of the Village Jumbie

Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in...

The Selfish Gene

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy l...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low, sprawling rubbish heap made up of the usual things—refuse from dustbins, paper, old tins and slippers and leaves from the tree...

The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays

Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on...

Frederick Douglass