Tree Quotes

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind.

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.