Timber Quotes

Timber Quote of the day

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.

I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

Kissing Sinclair was like making out with a sexy timber wolf— he was licking my fangs and nipping me lightly and growling under his breath and it was...oh, it was really something.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.