Old Tree Quotes
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Old Tree Quotes & Sayings
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
— Flannery O'Connor
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
— Bill Crawford
Broad-streeted Richmond ... The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.
— Jason Bateman
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
— Saib Tabrizi
For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.
— Jakob Bohme
Old age isa flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze. — William Carlos Williams
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Someone is dead.Even the trees know it,
those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. — Anne Sexton
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?
— Marc Goodman
Old fat spider spinning in a tree! Old fat spider can't see me! Attercop! Attercop! Won't
— J.R.R. Tolkien
He's as old as some trees.
— Pat Burns
It is, after all, that old process which Katherine Mansfield once described as 'going out and looking at a tree and coming back plus the tree.
— Padma Hejmadi
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
— C.S. Lewis
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
— Dennis Rodman
I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
Old pear tree starlings announce harvest time
— Phil Noble
How old is she now?" he asked."Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal. — Rick Riordan
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
For mine is the old belief ... There is a soil in every leaf.
— Maturin Murray Ballou
These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady
— Chamillionaire
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
— Jill Lepore
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
— Barry Humphries
A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.
— Emery Lord
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
While on that old grey stone I satUnder the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats
An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.
— Betty Smith
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
It is a very pretty observation of old Isaac Ambrose that the gum which exudes from the tree without cutting is always the best.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
— Mark Twain
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
— Walter Savage Landor
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
— Walter Bagehot
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
— Sir John Davies
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
— Barbara Tuchman
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
— Orson Welles