Tree Quotes

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

~ Joe Frazier

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

~ Alexander Pope

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

~ Kevin Wilson

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

~ Agyness Deyn

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

~ Paul Muldoon

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

~ Jane Goodall

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

~ Bas Rutten

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

~ Jose Andres

What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.

~ Kyle Hill

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

~ George H. W. Bush

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

~ Miranda Kerr

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

~ Ted Cruz