“ Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. ”
- Gerry Adams- Copy
- 833
“ Where is the pride of Summer — the green prime — The many, many leaves all twinkling? — threeOn the mossed elm; three on the naked limeTrembling — and one upon the old oak tree!Where is the Dryad's immortality? ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 2.2K
“ What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 2.9K
“ What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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“ The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token Of warning, nodded, — and I exclaim'd: "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken! ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the up soaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. ”
- Sylvia Pankhurst- Copy
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“ While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 2.1K
“ My mom was the glue that kept the family together. She would talk, and everyone would follow. ”
- Luis Rodriguez- Copy
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“ It's killing our trees. Some have died and have been taken out. Most of the trees are infected. We have 20 or 30 years' growth in those trees. It will take about that long to get the growth back. ”
- John Wells- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. ”
- Johnnetta Betsch Cole- Copy
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“ Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums. ”
- Dilys Laing- Copy
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“ On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. ”
- Sir Cecil Beaton- Copy
- 3K
“ The Duchess of Windsor never tried to hide her American upbringing or her love of fashion, even though the English prefer a royal family dressed in gum boots and head scarves. ”
- Diana Mosley- Copy
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