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I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.
The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
I like to position a cat tree in the window so the cats can look outside and feel the sunlight.
Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.
'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.
Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.
O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.
I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.
The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.
From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.
You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?
You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.
a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.
The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.