Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

Seneca the Younger

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• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Tree
  • Fruits
  • Branch

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Ancient

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Tree
  • Soil

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Man
  • Day

• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Ancient
  • Finding
  • Died

• Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Tree
  • Old
  • Fake

• Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Always
  • Perception
  • Prove

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Play
  • Feel

• Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Success
  • Tree

• The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Prove
  • Lover
  • Attractions

• He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Winning
  • Loser
  • Sarcastic

• I believe in me more than anything in this world.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Cameras

• When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wisdom
  • I Love
  • Satisfied

• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tree
  • Prove
  • Ancient