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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• 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

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

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• 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

• 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

• Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree. I am the lump of coal in her stocking.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Trump
  • Tree

• If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Tree

• willow of crystal, a poplar of water, a pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over, tree that is firmly rooted and that dances, turning course of a river that goes curving, advances and retreats, goes roundabout, arriving forever:

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Wind

• But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • Tree

• How the fuck you feed a tree?...What...you put a ham sandwich on the tree?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tree

• Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Tree

• I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

  

  Max Greenfield
  • Wife
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.

  

  William Golding
  • Thinking
  • Extraordinary
  • Metamorphosis

• The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

  

  Kim Young-sam
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Competition

• 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