Tree Quotes

• I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

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

  

  William Law
  • Evil
  • Sin
  • Fallen

• I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Believe
  • Tree

• Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Jesus

• The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

  

  Dorothea Lange
  • People
  • Heart
  • Why

• The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Fall

• If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

  

  Brad Warner
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Noise

• One by one, like leaves from a tree, All my faiths have forsaken me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Tree
  • Leaves
  • Faiths

• The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Words

• But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Growing
  • Tree

• In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Focus

• I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Music
  • House
  • Tree

• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  

  Black Elk
  • People
  • Children
  • Mother

• I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Poetry
  • Cry
  • Kitten

• My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Voice
  • Guinea
  • Fowl

• Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Light
  • Tree
  • Glowing

• For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

  

  Christopher Poole
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Suffering

• I am trying different styles, and while you can't climb a tree or jump on a crocodile in a dress, it is nice to get dressed up every now and then and kind of walk away from the khaki for a moment.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

  

  Weegee
  • Hollywood
  • Jersey
  • Newark

• I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Tree
  • Sunset

• When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • God
  • Art
  • Painting

• I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Sweet
  • Forest
  • Birds

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