Quotes of: Tree Keyword

The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.

African

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Chinese

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

Congolese

God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

First Frost

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Hush, Hush

Only the trees, only the trees. Like a key they see beyond the mystery, waiting patiently ever holding me while I hold the sky.

Blissful Musings: A Lyrical, Cosmic Dance of Embrace

Just like a butterfly, I had sprung from my cocoon for the first time. For my risk, I was rewarded with Jacob Bennett." - Laylla Jonson (Beneath the Blossom Tree)

Beneath the Blossom Tree

When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

John Updike

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

Killosophy

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

Runemarks

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Deciduous trees are trees that can’t decide what outfit to wear, so they change three times a year.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.

The Lacuna

Autumn teaches us a valuable lesson. During summer, all the green trees are beautiful. But there is no time of the year when the trees are more beautiful than when they are different colors. Diversity adds beauty to our world.

Look into the stillness

Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived.

The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.

Talking to Trees: A Chronicle of One Coach's Journey Into a New Coaching Paradigm.

When I'm in yoga class, and I'm in the Tree Pose, I always pretend I'm the Tree of Knowledge. To help further the fantasy I come to class with my yoga shorts stuffed with two apples.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple! When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!

Why I Make Myself Unhappy