Old Tree Quotes: top 52 famous quotes about Old Tree

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

I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. — Connor Franta

Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms. — Dogen

A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree! — P.D. Cain

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

I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom

now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you — Ikkyu

Old age is
a 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

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. — Edmund Burke

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree. — George Eliot

I resemble the poplar,
that tree which, even when old, still looks young. — Joseph Joubert

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

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. — Robert Browning

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 sat
Under 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

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield. — Masaoka Shiki

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone! — Henry Chorley

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

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold
And commerce settles on every tree — William Blake

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